Senior Software Engineer (Vector Search - Elasticsearch)

Join our globally-distributed team as a Senior Software Engineer focused on Elasticsearch and vector search capabilities. You'll contribute to the technical direction and vision for our search capabilities, design and implement new search features, enhance search functionality, and resolve bugs. You'll work with a team of experienced engineers, write modern Java code, and collaborate with community members worldwide. Enjoy benefits like fully paid health coverage, flexible location and schedule, generous vacation days, parental leave, volunteer time, and charitable donation matching.

Diriger des initiatives au sein d'Elasticsearch pour produire une offre de moteur de recherche de premier plan dans l'industrie, en fournissant une vitesse et une pertinence inégalées dans la recherche.

Travailler avec une équipe d'ingénieurs expérimentés, en se concentrant sur les capacités de recherche vectorielle d'Elasticsearch.

Responsibilities

• Contribuer à la direction technique et à la vision de nos capacités de recherche, y compris la conception et la mise en œuvre de nouvelles fonctionnalités de recherche.

Requirements

• Professional experience with search or vector databases, and you used HNSW, IVF, or other relevant algorithms and libraries on search platforms at scale
• You possess the ability to collaborate across functions and teams and seamlessly transition between different projects, codebases, or teams based on business priorities
• You work with a high level of autonomy and are able to take on projects and guide them from beginning to end. This covers both technical design and working with other engineers to develop needed components
• 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 implemented novel techniques in vector similarity on a search platform with a large user base or progressed the field of academic research in vector similarity information retrieval
• You work autonomously and can drive decisions and results in a distributed team by leveraging asynchronous, direct, and transparent communication
• You have solid skills in core Java and are conversant in the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs, as well as other features like lambdas
• 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're comfortable developing collaboratively. Giving and receiving feedback on code and approaches and APIs is hard! Bonus points if you've collaborated over the internet because that's harder. Double bonus points for asynchronous collaboration over the internet. That's even harder, but we do it anyway because it's the best way we know how to build software
• You have experience designing, leading, and owning cross-functional initiatives
• Experience with data storage technology

Preferred

• You've worked with open source projects and are familiar with different styles of source control workflow and continuous integration
• You've built things with Elasticsearch before

Pay

EUR 85,600 - 135,500