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Senior Software Engineer – Search Algorithms, Elasticsearch

🔥 10 minutes ago

🇬🇷 Greece – Remote

💵 €61.1k - €96.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

Where this job comes from

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Elastic

1001 - 5000 employees

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Logistics • Cloud Security

Elastic is a skilled consulting partner specializing in cloud technologies, particularly with Amazon Web Services (AWS). They help businesses design, build, and secure public cloud migrations and environments, offering services in cloud migration, optimization, and security. With over a decade of experience and AWS-certified experts, Elastic aims to simplify the complexities of public cloud for their clients, ensuring smooth digital transformations.

📋 Description

• Lead Elasticsearch initiatives to produce an industry-leading search engine with speed and relevance • Build new search features and fix bugs in Elasticsearch • Improve code understandability and implement new algorithms or data structures • Work close to the operating system and hardware when needed • Collaborate with globally distributed engineers focused on Elasticsearch vector search • Drive improvements in Elasticsearch search relevance • Work with worldwide community members on issues and pull requests, including triage and resolution • Write idiomatic modern Java

🎯 Requirements

• Professional experience with search or vector databases • Experience using HNSW, IVF, or other relevant algorithms and libraries on search platforms at scale • Solid skills in core Java, including data structures, concurrency constructs, and lambdas • Ability to take projects from technical design through completion • Experience collaborating on code, approaches, and APIs • Experience with data storage technologies such as Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra • Proven track record of using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code while owning final outcomes • Ability to collaborate across functions and teams and transition between projects, codebases, or teams • Ability to work autonomously and drive decisions and results in a distributed team • Bonus: experience building with Elasticsearch; open-source projects, source-control workflows, continuous integration, data storage technology, and cross-functional initiatives

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary • Health coverage for you and your family in many locations • Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles • Generous number of vacation days each year • Matching up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service • Up to 40 hours each year for volunteer projects • Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

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