Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.
We're looking for a Principal Software Developer to join the Elasticsearch - Search team. We collaborate across continents every day over email, GitHub, Zoom, and Slack. At our best, we write fast, scalable and intuitive software. 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.



Work with a globally distributed team of experienced engineers focused on the vector search capabilities of Elasticsearch.
Be an expert on Elasticsearch search relevance. Write idiomatic modern Java -- Elasticsearch is 99.8% Java
Professional experience with search and vector databases, and you have used HNSW, IVF, or other relevant algorithms and libraries on search platforms at scale.
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 work with a high level of autonomy and are able to take on projects and guide them from beginning to end. 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've used several data storage techno

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