Elasticsearch Search Engineering Lead

Elastic; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 253,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock program

401k with matching up to 6%

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Elastic is seeking a Principal Software Developer to join the Elasticsearch - Search team. This role focuses on delivering a robust search experience, including enhancements to Lucene-based search, with a distributed team across regions.

The successful candidate will design and implement new search features, resolve complex bugs, and contribute to performance and relevance improvements while maintaining high code quality.

Qualifications

• Experience with search and vector databases at scale.
• Strong core Java skills and modern language features.
• Autonomous, able to drive technical design end-to-end.
• Collaborative mindset with asynchronous, distributed teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Lead initiatives to deliver a leading search engine with speed and relevance.
• Contribute to Elasticsearch features, fixes, and algorithms.
• Work with a globally distributed team on vector search capabilities.
• Own search relevance improvements based on data and instincts.
• Collaborate with community members via issues and PRs.
• Write idiomatic modern Java for Elasticsearch.

Skills

Java

Search

Vector databases

Distributed teams

Open source

AI for development

Tools

Elasticsearch

Solr

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Cassandra

Job description

Elastic is seeking a Principal Software Developer to join the Elasticsearch - Search team. This role focuses on delivering a robust search experience, including enhancements to Lucene-based search, with a distributed team across regions.

The successful candidate will design and implement new search features, resolve complex bugs, and contribute to performance and relevance improvements while maintaining high code quality.