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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.
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Principal Software Engineer - Search Algorithms - Elasticsearch joins the globally-distributed Elasticsearch search team to enhance vector similarity search functionality. This role involves designing and implementing new features, improving existing capabilities, and resolving bugs within the Lucene framework. The engineer will lead initiatives to build an industry-leading vector database offering by developing new algorithms or data structures, potentially involving low-level operating system and hardware interactions. Key responsibilities include collaborating with community members on pull requests and triaging issues while maintaining high standards for code clarity. Candidates must possess professional experience with vector similarity, vector databases, and specific algorithms like HNSW or IVF. Technical requirements include proficiency in modern Java, including the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs. Experience with technologies such as Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra is also required to support search relevance goals.
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