Senior Elasticsearch Search Relevance Engineer

Elasticsearch B.V.; Schweiz; Remote; CHF 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Flexible schedules

Vacation days

Donation matching

Volunteer hours

Parental leave

Job summary

Elastic is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Search Relevance team. You will influence technical direction, design and implement new search features, and improve relevance and performance across vector search capabilities.

You will collaborate with a globally distributed team, write idiomatic Java, and tackle challenges near the hardware and OS. The role emphasizes autonomy, code reviews, and best-practice collaboration.

Qualifications

• Experience with search or vector databases and relevant algorithms at scale.
• Strong Java skills and knowledge of concurrency and data structures.
• Ability to work autonomously and guide projects end-to-end.
• Experience collaborating across distributed teams and open sources.

Responsibilities

• Lead initiatives to deliver industry-leading search with speed and relevance.
• Contribute to Elasticsearch by building features and fixing bugs; design improvements.
• Collaborate with a globally distributed team on vector search capabilities.
• Drive improvements in search relevance based on data and intuition.
• Engage with the community on issues and pull requests; provide guidance.
• Write idiomatic modern Java; contribute to code quality and maintainability.

Skills

Java

Distributed systems

Search relevance

Vector search

Async collaboration

JVM

Code review

OSS collaboration

Data structures

Performance optimization

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Elasticsearch

Lucene

Linux

Job description

Elastic is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Search Relevance team. You will influence technical direction, design and implement new search features, and improve relevance and performance across vector search capabilities.

You will collaborate with a globally distributed team, write idiomatic Java, and tackle challenges near the hardware and OS. The role emphasizes autonomy, code reviews, and best-practice collaboration.