Principal Software Developer - Vector Search - Elasticsearch

Elastic · Canada

In short

▸Ingeniero principal enfocado en mejorar el búsqueda de vectores en Elasticsearch.
▸Trabajas con Java, algoritmos de similitud (HNSW, IVF) y colaboras con equipos globales en GitHub y Zoom.
▸Destacado: Lideras el desarrollo de una oferta de base de datos de vectores líder en la industria.

Proficiency in English is required for collaboration with global teams.

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What they ask for

✓Experiencia profunda en búsquedas de vectores y bases de datos de vectores.
✓Dominio de algoritmos como HNSW, IVF o similares aplicados a escala.
✓Habilidades avanzadas en Java y estructuras de datos concurrentes.
✓Capacidad de liderar proyectos técnicos desde el diseño hasta la implementación.
✓Experiencia trabajando con equipos distribuidos y colaborando en GitHub.
✓Conocimiento en desarrollo de algoritmos nuevos o implementación de técnicas existentes.

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Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI. What is the role We're looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Search team. This globally-distributed team of expert engineers focuses on delivering a robust and feature-rich search experience, including contributing to improving the search experience in Lucene. This is a principal software engineering role that focuses on enhancing the vector similarity search functionality within Elasticsearch, covering the design and implementation of new vector search features, enhancements to existing vector search functionality, and resolving bugs. Our company is distributed by intention. We hire the best engineers we can find wherever they are, whoever they are. We collaborate across continents every day over email, GitHub, Zoom, and Slack. At our best, we write fast, scalable and intuitive software. We believe that the best way to do that is to empower individual engineers, code review every change, decide big things by consensus, and strive for incremental improvements. What You Will Be Doing • Lead initiatives within Elasticsearch to produce an industry-leading vector database offering, supplying unparalleled speed and relevance in search. • Contribute to Elasticsearch full time, building new search features and fixing intriguing bugs, all while making the code easier to understand. Sometimes you'll need to invent a new algorithm or data structure. Or find one and implement it. Sometimes you'll need to get close to the operating system and hardware. • Work with a globally distributed team of experienced engineers focused on the vector search capabilities of Elasticsearch. • Be an expert on how Elasticsearch implements vector similarity in support of search relevance and everyone will turn to you when they have a question about this area. You'll improve this area based on your questions and your instincts. • Work with community members from all over the world on issues and pull requests, sometimes triaging them and handing them off to other experts and sometimes handling them yourself. • Write idiomatic modern Java -- Elasticsearch is 99.8% Java! What You Bring Along • You have implemented novel techniques in vector similarity on a search platform with a large user base or progressed the field of academic research in vector similarity information retrieval. • Professional experience with vector similarity and vector databases, and you used HNSW, IVF, or other relevant algorithms and libraries on search platforms at scale. • You have strong skills in core Java and are conversant in the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs, as well as other features like lambdas. • You work with a high level of autonomy, and are able to take on projects and guide them from beginning to end. This covers both technical design and working with other engineers to develop needed components. • You're comfortable developing collaboratively. Giving and receiving feedback on code and approaches and APIs is hard! Bonus points if you've collaborated over the internet because that's harder. Double bonus points for asynchr

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