Senior Vector Search Engineer

Elastic; España; Presencial; EUR 80.000 - 127.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Health coverage

Flexible locations & schedules

Generous vacation days

Volunteer days & donations matching

Parental leave

Descripción de la vacante

Elastic is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for the Elasticsearch project, focusing on vector similarity search innovations and performance optimizations. You will influence design and implementation across a globally distributed team, contributing to high-scale search capabilities and collaborating across continents via email, GitHub, Zoom, and Slack.

You will write idiomatic modern Java, work on vector search features, triage issues, and contribute to a robust vector database offering

Formación

• Proven experience in vector similarity on a large-scale search platform.
• Experience with vector databases and relevant algorithms (e.g., HNSW, IVF).
• Strong Java core and concurrency constructs knowledge; familiarity with lambdas.

Responsabilidades

• Lead initiatives to deliver a leading vector database offering with fast search relevance.
• Develop new search features and fix complex bugs; implement novel data structures or algorithms as needed.
• Collaborate with a globally distributed team focusing on Elasticsearch vector search capabilities.
• Be the go-to expert on how Elasticsearch implements vector similarity to support search relevance.

Conocimientos

Java

Vector similarity

Distributed systems

Code review

Asynchronous collaboration

Performance optimization

Educación

Experience with distributed search platforms

Herramientas

Elasticsearch

Solr

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Cassandra

Descripción del empleo

Elastic is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for the Elasticsearch project, focusing on vector similarity search innovations and performance optimizations. You will influence design and implementation across a globally distributed team, contributing to high-scale search capabilities and collaborating across continents via email, GitHub, Zoom, and Slack.

You will write idiomatic modern Java, work on vector search features, triage issues, and contribute to a robust vector database offering