# Senior Software Engineer - Search Relevance - Elasticsearch

**Company**: Elastic
**Location**: Canada
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $128,300-$203,000 CAD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/elastic/jobs/7699075?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale , unleashing the potential of businesses and people.

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Search team. This globally-distributed team of expert engineers focuses on delivering a robust and feature-rich search experience, including contributing to improving the search experience in Lucene.

**What You Will Be Doing**

- Contribute to Elasticsearch full time, building new search features and fixing intriguing bugs, all while making the code easier to understand.

- Work with a globally distributed team of experienced engineers focused on the search capabilities of Elasticsearch.

- Be an expert on Elasticsearch search relevance.

- Work with community members from all over the world on issues and pull requests.

- Write idiomatic modern Java -- Elasticsearch is 99.8% Java!

**What You Bring**

- Professional experience with search and vector databases, and you used HNSW, IVF, or other relevant algorithms and libraries on search platforms at scale.

- Strong skills in core Java and are conversant in the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs.

- Autonomy to take on projects and guide them from beginning to end.

- Comfortable developing collaboratively and giving/receiving feedback on code and approaches.

- Experience with several data storage technologies like Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra.

**Bonus Points**

- You've built things with Elasticsearch before.

- You’ve worked on data storage technology.

- You've worked with open source projects and are familiar with different styles of source control workflow and continuous integration.

- Experience designing, leading and owning cross-functional initiatives.

The typical starting salary range for this role is: $128,300-$203,000 CAD

**Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People** As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. We strive to have parity of benefits across regions.

Benefits include:

- Competitive pay

- Health coverage for you and your family

- Flexible locations and schedules

- Generous number of vacation days

- Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service

- Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects

- Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Elasticsearch
- Search Relevance
- Lucene
- HNSW
- IVF
- Data Structures
- Concurrency Constructs

### Nice to have
- Open Source Projects
- Source Control Workflow
- Continuous Integration
- Cross-Functional Initiatives

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