# Principal Software Engineer - Vector Search - Elasticsearch

**Company**: Elastic
**Location**: Canada
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $154,000-$243,600 CAD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/elastic/jobs/7903238?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 Principal Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Search team, focusing on enhancing the vector similarity search functionality within Elasticsearch.

## Responsibilities

- Lead initiatives within Elasticsearch to produce an industry-leading vector database offering, supplying unparalleled speed and relevance in search.

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

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

- Be an expert on how Elasticsearch implements vector similarity in support of 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!

## Requirements

- You have implemented novel techniques in vector similarity on a search platform with a large user base or progressed the field of academic research in vector similarity information retrieval.

- Professional experience with vector similarity 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 conversant in the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs.

- You work with a high level of autonomy, taking on projects and guiding them from beginning to end.

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

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

## Benefits

- Competitive pay based on the work you do.

- Health coverage for you and your family.

- Flexible locations and schedules.

- Generous number of vacation days each year.

- Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 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.

The typical starting salary range for this role is: $154,000-$243,600 CAD

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- vector similarity
- vector databases
- HNSW
- IVF
- data structures
- concurrency constructs

### Nice to have
- Elasticsearch
- open source projects
- source control workflow
- continuous integration
- data storage technology

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