# Senior Software Engineer - Vector Search - Elasticsearch

**Company**: Elastic
**Location**: Greece
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: €61,100-€96,600 EUR
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Search Relevance team. As a technical leader, you will contribute to the technical direction and vision for our search capabilities, including design and implementation of new search features, enhancements to search functionality, and resolving bugs.

Responsibilities:

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

- 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 vector search capabilities of Elasticsearch.

- Be an expert on Elasticsearch search relevance and identify areas for improvement.

- Collaborate with community members on issues and pull requests.

- Write idiomatic modern Java.

Requirements:

- Experience implementing novel techniques in vector similarity on a search platform or progressing the field of academic research in vector similarity information retrieval.

- Professional experience with search or vector databases, and familiarity with algorithms and libraries such as HNSW and IVF.

- Solid skills in core Java and data structures.

- Ability to work autonomously and take on projects from beginning to end.

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

- Experience with multiple data storage technologies.

- Proven track record of using AI to accelerate development and optimize code.

Benefits:

- Competitive pay

- Health coverage for you and your family

- Flexible locations and schedules

- Generous number of vacation days

- Matching up to $2000 for financial donations and service

- Up to 40 hours per year for volunteer projects

- Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Elasticsearch
- vector search
- search relevance
- data structures
- concurrency constructs

### Nice to have
- HNSW
- IVF
- open source projects
- source control workflow
- continuous integration

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