Elastic · 3 days ago
Consulting Engineer - ElasticSearch
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$111K/yr - $176K/yr
5+ years expElastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time using all their data at scale. As a Consulting Engineer – Search, you will help customers realize the value of Elastic’s solutions by designing and delivering scalable architectures that improve application performance and user experience.
AnalyticsCloud ComputingOpen SourceSaaSSearch EngineSoftware
Responsibilities
Translate business and technical requirements into scalable, outcome-driven solutions built on the Elastic Stack
Lead end-to-end delivery of customer engagements — from discovery and design through implementation, enablement, and optimization
Partner with customers to architect, deploy, and operationalize Elastic solutions that drive measurable value and adoption
Provide technical oversight, guidance, and enablement to customers and teammates throughout project lifecycles
Collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Product, Engineering, and Support to ensure successful outcomes and continuous improvement
Capture and share best practices, lessons learned, and solution patterns across the Elastic Services community
Contribute to internal enablement, mentoring, and a culture of continuous learning and collaboration
Apply your expertise to optimize queries, tune clusters, and handle high query/indexing throughput at enterprise scale
Collaborate with product and engineering teams to identify product improvements, extensions, and defects based on field feedback
Operationalize vector search (e.g., kNN, ANN, hybrid embeddings) with Elastic’s vector capabilities and ML models or similar
Profile and tune queries for high-QPS environments with sub-second latency targets
Qualification
Required
5+ years as a consultant, engineer, or architect with deep expertise in Enterprise Search technologies and concepts, including generative AI
Hands-on experience deploying Elastic Search solutions or similar platforms (Solr, Algolia, AWS OpenSearch, Palantir, Unbxd, e-commerce site search engines)
Strong experience in custom search solution design, query development, relevancy tuning, and NLP use cases
Expertise in distributed systems and large-scale application infrastructure
Proficiency in at least one programming language; knowledge of open-source machine learning/AI frameworks preferred
Knowledge or certification in Kubernetes, Linux, Java, databases, Docker, AWS/Azure/GCP, Kafka, Redis, VMs, Lucene
Familiarity with DevOps practices: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD
Ability to manage delivery from proof-of-concept through production rollout, while mentoring client teams for long-term success
Familiarity with modern NLP and AI ecosystems (transformers, Hugging Face, vector DBs like Pinecone or Weaviate) as applied to search
Strong communication and presentation skills, with experience working directly with customers to gather requirements and deliver solutions
Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
Comfortable working in highly distributed teams, both remote and on-site when needed
May require significant travel to customer sites to support engagements and solution implementations; candidates should be comfortable with varying levels of travel based on business needs
Preferred
Elastic Certified Engineer certification
Experience at a Big 4 consulting firm
Hands-on experience with Ansible, Terraform, JavaScript, ECK/Kubernetes
Familiarity with machine learning and AI applied to search solutions
Experience contributing to open-source projects or documentation
Public speaking experience at conferences, meetups, or enterprise workshops
Benefits
Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
Generous number of vacation days each year
Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
Embracing parenthood with a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
Company-matched 401k with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings
Company
Elastic
Elastic builds software to make data usable in real time and at scale for search, logging, security, and analytics use cases.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$162MKey Investors
New Enterprise AssociatesIndex VenturesBenchmark
2018-10-04IPO
2018-05-03Secondary Market
2016-07-01Series D· $58M
Leadership Team
Ashutosh Kulkarni
CEO
Shay Banon
Chief Technology Officer
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