Senior Software Engineer - Search Relevance in ES|QL - Elasticsearch

Professional experience with search or vector databases, and you used HNSW, IVF, or other relevant algorithms and libraries on search platforms at scale.

This covers both technical design and working with other engineers to develop needed components.

Giving and receiving feedback on code and approaches and APIs is hard!

You've used several data storage technologies like Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra and have some idea how they work and why they work that way.

You have a proven track record of using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code, while still owning the final outcomes.

You work autonomously and can drive decisions and results in a distributed team by leveraging asynchronous, direct, and transparent communication.

We're looking for a Senior Software Developer to join the Elasticsearch - Search Relevance team.

This globally-distributed team of expert engineers focuses on delivering a robust and feature-rich search experience, including contributing to improving the search experience in Lucene.

This technical leader is

contributing to the technical direction and vision for our search capabilities, including design and implementation of new search features, enhancements to search functionality, and resolving bugs.

Our company is distributed by intention.

We hire the best engineers we can find wherever they are, whoever they are.