Principal Software Engineer, Vector Search, Elasticsearch
Elastic
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This role pays more than 78% of similar roles. Most pay $177,250–$246,543 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $258k versus about $212k for comparable roles.
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Elastic is the company behind Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash). It sells search, observability, and security products built on that search engine, primarily through its Elastic Cloud managed service.
Elastic currently has 52 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $133,100–$210,600 across 52 roles with salary data.
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The Principal Product Manager II, AI/Vectors - Elasticsearch leads the strategy and roadmap for Elastic's embedding, reranking, and vector database capabilities. Working with engineering and research teams, this role involves conducting market research on state-of-the-art models, evaluating the competitive landscape, and defining long-term goals for unstructured data management. The position requires owning the vision for vector indexing internals, developer-facing APIs, and SDKs while managing trade-offs between recall, latency, index size, and ingestion throughput. Key technical competencies include vector search fundamentals like ANN indexing, similarity metrics, and hybrid retrieval, alongside knowledge of generative models, fine-tuning, and document processing. The role solves complex problems in retrieval quality and semantic ingestion across Serverless and Self-managed deployments to enhance the competitiveness of the Elastic AI and Vector products.
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