As a Principal Software Engineer on the Elasticsearch - Search team, you’ll lead the development of vector search capabilities at scale. You’ll shape a high-performance vector database experience, contribute to core search features, and drive architectural innovations. You’ll collaborate with a global team, mentor peers, and engage with the community to deliver fast, reliable search powered by AI. This role offers meaningful impact by advancing vector similarity technology in a widely used platform.
Compensaciones / Beneficios
- competitive pay
- health coverage for you and family
- adaptable locations and schedules
- generous vacation days
- donation matching
- parental leave
Responsabilidades
- Lead initiatives to deliver an industry-leading vector database with fast, relevant search
- Contribute to Elasticsearch features, implement new search capabilities, and fix complex bugs
- Invent or adapt algorithms and data structures; optimize near hardware and OS boundaries
- Collaborate with a globally distributed team on vector search capabilities
- Become the go-to expert on vector similarity within Elasticsearch and drive improvements
- Triager and manage community issues and PRs, sometimes handling tasks independently
- Write idiomatic Java to maintain and evolve the codebase
Requisitos principales
- Experience implementing novel vector similarity techniques on large-scale search platforms
- Proficiency in vector similarity and vector databases; exposure to HNSW, IVF, or related algorithms
- Strong core Java skills, data structures, concurrency, and modern features like lambdas
- Autonomous with end-to-end project ownership and cross-functional collaboration
- Experience with distributed collaboration and open source practices
- Familiarity with multiple data storage technologies (e.g., Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra)
- Excellent verbal and written communication; collaborative and respectful working style
- Proven track record applying AI to accelerate development and optimize systems
- collaborative
- effective communicator
- adaptable to asynchronous work
- vector similarity
- vector databases
- HNSW