Senior Search Engineer — Relevance & Vector AI

Elastic; United States; On-site; USD 133,000 - 253,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Flexible locations

Generous vacation

Volunteer time

Job summary

Elastic, the Search AI Company, seeks a Senior Software Engineer for the Elasticsearch - Search Relevance team. You will shape technical direction, design new search features, and resolve complex issues across distributed teams.

Join a fast, scalable software culture focused on high relevance search and state-of-the-art AI integration. You’ll work with Java, contribute to Lucene, and influence across systems and hardware boundaries.

Qualifications

• Proven experience with search or vector databases at scale.
• Strong Java core and concurrency knowledge with modern features.
• Ability to own technical design and drive end-to-end projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead initiatives to deliver industry-leading search with high speed and relevance.
• Build new features, fix bugs, and optimize code for clarity and performance.
• Collaborate with a globally distributed team on vector search capabilities.
• Own Elasticsearch search relevance and drive improvements based on data.

Skills

Java

Search relevance

Vector databases

HNSW

Tools

Elasticsearch

Solr

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Job description

Elastic, the Search AI Company, seeks a Senior Software Engineer for the Elasticsearch - Search Relevance team. You will shape technical direction, design new search features, and resolve complex issues across distributed teams.

Join a fast, scalable software culture focused on high relevance search and state-of-the-art AI integration. You’ll work with Java, contribute to Lucene, and influence across systems and hardware boundaries.