Senior Software Engineer, Vector Search & Relevance

Elastic; España; Presencial; EUR 67.000 - 106.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Health coverage

Flexible locations & schedules

Generous vacation days

Donation matching

Volunteer time

Parental leave

Descripción de la vacante

Elastic, a distributed company, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Search Relevance team. You will help shape the technical direction, design and implement new search features, and tackle challenging bugs to improve speed and relevance.

You will work with a globally distributed team focused on vector search capabilities, contribute to Elasticsearch relevance, and collaborate across communities while writing idiomatic Java code.

Formación

• Proven experience delivering high-performance search and relevance features.
• Strong background in vector similarity techniques on large-scale systems.
• Expertise with Java and modern concurrency/utilities.
• Experience with distributed, asynchronous collaboration across teams.
• Familiarity with Elasticsearch or related search stacks.

Responsabilidades

• Lead initiatives to deliver industry-leading search with speed and relevance.
• Design and implement new search features, improving functionality and bugs.
• Contribute to vector search capabilities and performance tuning.
• Collaborate with global engineers, triage issues, and drive API design.
• Write clean, idiomatic Java and optimize critical code paths.
• Engage with open source communities and external contributors.

Conocimientos

Java

Vector similarity

Search relevance

Distributed teamwork

Asynchronous collaboration

Herramientas

Elasticsearch

Solr

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Cassandra

Descripción del empleo

Elastic, a distributed company, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Search Relevance team. You will help shape the technical direction, design and implement new search features, and tackle challenging bugs to improve speed and relevance.

You will work with a globally distributed team focused on vector search capabilities, contribute to Elasticsearch relevance, and collaborate across communities while writing idiomatic Java code.