Senior Java Engineer, Inference API for AI Search

Elastic; United States; Hybrid; USD 98,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Flexible schedules

Vacation days

Donation matching

Volunteer time

Parental leave

Job summary

Elastic, the Search AI Company, is seeking a Senior Java Developer to join our Elasticsearch team and drive the Inference API. You will maintain the plugin framework and REST API, integrating with internal systems and external inference providers to enable semantic search and generative AI features.

You will design scalable Java services, review open source contributions, and collaborate with the Kibana team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of production Java experience in a large codebase.
• Experience crafting ergonomic APIs and reasoning through tradeoffs.
• Strong concurrency and Java fundamentals (low-level concepts).

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain integrations with internal systems and external inference providers, including schema negotiation and streaming.
• Contribute to the inference plugin architecture: task settings, chunking, rate limiting, provider config.
• Review open source contributions to ensure standards and quality.
• Participate in on-call rotation for inference incidents and write tests (ESTestCase, YAML REST tests).

Skills

Java

API design

Concurrency

REST APIs

AI tooling

Tools

ESTestCase

YAML tests

Job description

Elastic, the Search AI Company, is seeking a Senior Java Developer to join our Elasticsearch team and drive the Inference API. You will maintain the plugin framework and REST API, integrating with internal systems and external inference providers to enable semantic search and generative AI features.

You will design scalable Java services, review open source contributions, and collaborate with the Kibana team.