Senior Software Engineer – Vector Search, Elasticsearch

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🇨🇭 Switzerland – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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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 initiatives within Elasticsearch to produce an industry-leading search engine with speed and relevance • Build new search features and fix bugs in Elasticsearch • Improve code understandability and sometimes invent or implement algorithms and data structures • Work close to the operating system and hardware when needed • Collaborate with a globally distributed team focused on Elasticsearch vector search capabilities • Identify and drive improvements in Elasticsearch search relevance • Work with global community members on issues and pull requests, triaging, handing off, or resolving them • Write idiomatic modern Java • Contribute to the technical direction and vision for search capabilities, including designing and implementing features and enhancements

🎯 Requirements

• Experience implementing novel techniques in vector similarity on a search platform with a large user base or advancing academic research in vector similarity information retrieval • Professional experience with search or vector databases • Experience using HNSW, IVF, or other relevant algorithms and libraries on search platforms at scale • Solid core Java skills, including the standard library, data structures, concurrency constructs, and lambdas • Ability to work autonomously and guide projects from beginning to end, including technical design and developing components with other engineers • Experience with collaborative development, code and API reviews, and asynchronous internet collaboration • Experience with data storage technologies such as Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra • Proven track record 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 drive decisions and results in a distributed team using asynchronous, direct, and transparent communication • Export license may be required as a condition of employment for individuals located in or nationals of Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, or Russia, including specified annexed Ukrainian territories

🏖️ 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 • Elastic matches 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 • Inclusive culture and accessibility accommodations

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