Elastic is looking to enhance the vector similarity search functionality within Elasticsearch to provide an industry-leading vector database offering with unparalleled speed and relevance in search.
Requirements
- 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've used several data storage technologies like Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra and have some idea how they work and why they work that way.
- You've built things with Elasticsearch before.
- You've worked with open source projects and are familiar with different styles of source control workflow and continuous integration.
- Experience with data storage technology.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Invent a new algorithm or data structure, or find one and implement it.
- 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.
- Write idiomatic modern Java -- Elasticsearch is 99.8% Java!
Other
- 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.
- 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.
- 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!
- You have excellent verbal and written communication skills. Like we said, collaborating on the internet is hard. We try to be respectful, empathetic, and trusting in all of our interactions. And we'd expect that from you too.
