Senior Consulting Architect, AI-Powered Elasticsearch

Elastic; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 133,000 - 211,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Flexible locations & schedules

Vacation days

Stock program

401k matching

Job summary

Elastic seeks a Consulting Architect - Search to lead enterprise Elasticsearch deployments, translating business needs into scalable architectures and guiding large migrations. You will shape vector search, ILM, CCR/CCS, and RAG pipelines while mentoring engineers and aligning roadmaps.

This role collaborates with global teams and Elastic Product Management to drive architectural standards and technical excellence. Competitive rewards and flexible locations are offered.

Qualifications

• 5+ years as Consulting Architect, Lead Engineer, or Senior Systems Consultant focusing on Elasticsearch at scale.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and Elasticsearch internals (Lucene, cluster state, master/data/ingest roles).
• Experience deploying production-grade semantic search with vector fields and NLP/LLM integrations.

Responsibilities

• Translate complex business requirements into resilient, enterprise retrieval architectures on distributed Elasticsearch environments.
• Lead technical strategy and design authority for high-stakes engagements including node blueprinting, capacity planning, ILM, and CCR/CCS.
• Design and operationalize semantic search architectures using vector DB capabilities (kNN, ANN, ELSER, RAG).
• Profile, benchmark, and tune distributed search and indexing for ultra-high-QPS with sub-second SLAs; optimize heap and GC.

Skills

Elasticsearch Expertise

AI-powered Search

Cloud-Native Infra

Polyglot Coding

Executive Communication

Education

Bachelor's / Master’s / PhD in CS or related field

Tools

Docker

Terraform

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Elastic seeks a Consulting Architect - Search to lead enterprise Elasticsearch deployments, translating business needs into scalable architectures and guiding large migrations. You will shape vector search, ILM, CCR/CCS, and RAG pipelines while mentoring engineers and aligning roadmaps.

This role collaborates with global teams and Elastic Product Management to drive architectural standards and technical excellence. Competitive rewards and flexible locations are offered.