Senior Software Engineer - Vector Search - Elasticsearch

Elastic · United Statessenior

In short

▸Ingeniero senior en Elasticsearch enfocado en búsqueda vectorial y relevancia de resultados.
▸Trabajas en el núcleo de Lucene, diseñando y desarrollando funciones avanzadas de búsqueda a escala.
▸Destaca por liderar iniciativas técnicas en un equipo global distribuido con alto impacto en IA y búsqueda.

Proficiency in English required for collaboration across global teams.

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What they ask for

✓Experiencia demostrable en desarrollo de motores de búsqueda y sistema de texto completo.
✓Profundidad técnica en algoritmos de búsqueda, relevancia y recuperación de información.
✓Conocimiento avanzado de Lucene y sus componentes internos.
✓Experiencia con desarrollo en Java y en entornos distribuidos a gran escala.
✓Capacidad para liderar arquitectura técnica y tomar decisiones técnicas complejas.
✓Habilidades sólidas en revisión de código y colaboración en equipos distribuidos.

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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 Senior Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Search Relevance 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 technical leader is responsible for contributing to the technical direction and vision for our search capabilities, including design and implementation of new search features, enhancements to 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 search engine offering, supplying unparalleled speed and relevance in search. <li class="p

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