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 Search Relevance team to deliver a robust, feature-rich search experience and contribute to improvements in Lucene. This technical leader will drive the vision for search capabilities by designing and implementing new features, enhancing functionality, and resolving complex bugs. The role involves building new search features, inventing algorithms or data structures, and potentially working close to hardware. Key responsibilities include managing vector search capabilities and collaborating with a global community on pull requests. Candidates must possess professional experience with search or vector databases using HNSW or IVF algorithms. Required skills include core Java expertise, knowledge of standard library data structures, concurrency constructs, and familiarity with technologies like Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra. The role focuses on solving technical challenges related to search speed and relevance within the Elasticsearch platform.
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