Senior Software Engineer, Search Algorithms, Elasticsearch
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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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Senior Software Engineer - Search Algorithms - Elasticsearch joins the Elasticsearch - Search Relevance team to deliver a robust, feature-rich search experience. This technical leader contributes to the vision for search capabilities, including designing and implementing new features, enhancing functionality, and resolving bugs within Lucene. The role involves building new features, inventing algorithms or data structures, and potentially working close to hardware. Key responsibilities include leading initiatives for speed and relevance, managing community pull requests, and improving vector search capabilities. Candidates must possess professional experience with search or vector databases using HNSW or IVF algorithms. Required skills include core Java proficiency, knowledge of standard library data structures, concurrency constructs, and familiarity with technologies like Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra. The role focuses on solving complex problems regarding search relevance and infrastructure for large-scale data systems.
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