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.What is the roleWe're looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Search team. This is a principal software engineering role that focuses on enhancing the vector similarity search functionality within Elasticsearch, covering the design and implementation of new vector search features, enhancements to existing vector search functionality, and resolving bugs.We collaborate across continents every day over email, GitHub, Zoom, and Slack. At our best, we write fast, scalable and intuitive software. What You Will Be DoingLead initiatives within Elasticsearch to produce an industry-leading vector database 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 how Elasticsearch implements vector similarity in support of search relevance and everyone will turn to you when they have a question about this area. Write idiomatic modern Java -- Elasticsearch is 99.8% JavaProfessional experience with vector similarity and vector databases, and you used HNSW, IVF, or other relevant algorithms and libraries on search platforms at scale.You have strong skills in core Java and are conversant in the standard library of data structures and concurrency const

📌 Principal Software Engineer (España)
🏢 Elastic
📍 España