- 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 responsible for 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

- We collaborate across continents every day over email, GitHub, Zoom, and Slack

- At our best, we write fast, scalable and intuitive software

- We believe that the best way to do that is to empower individual engineers, code review every change, decide big things by consensus, and strive for incremental improvements

- Lead initiatives within Elasticsearch to produce an industry-leading search engine offering, supplying unparalleled speed and relevance in search

- Contribute to Elasticsearch full time, building new search features and fixing intriguing bugs, all while making the code easier to understand. Sometimes you’ll need to invent a new algorithm or data structure. Or find one and implement it.



Sometimes you’ll need to get close to the operating system and hardware

- Work with a globally distributed team of experienced engineers focused on the vector search capabilities of Elasticsearch

- Be an expert on Elasticsearch search relevance. You’ll identify and drive improvements in this area based on your questions and your instincts

- Work with community members from all over the world on issues and pull requests, sometimes triaging them and handing them off to other experts and sometimes handling them yourself

- Write idiomatic modern Java — Elasticsearch is 99.8% Java!

Benefits

- Toast to your health: Fully paid health coverage for you and your family, in many locations.

- Craft your calendar: Versátil location and schedule for most roles.

- Create space for you: Distributed by design workforce, plus generous number of vacation days each year.

- Embrace parenthood: Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave, plus generous family formation benefits.

- Give back your time: 40 hours each year to use toward volunteering with organizations and causes you’re passionate about.

- Amplify your impact: Double your charitable giving — we match donations up to $1500 USD (or local currency equivalent).

📌 Senior Software Engineer (Search Relevance in ES|QL, Elasticsearch) (Madrid)
🏢 Elastic
📍 Madrid