Elastic · 1 day ago
Search - Distinguished Engineer I
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/StaffElastic is the Search AI Company that enables businesses to find answers in real time using their data. They are seeking a Distinguished Engineer to lead the architecture and vision for their Search products, focusing on enhancing developer and user experiences while collaborating with various engineering teams.
AnalyticsCloud ComputingOpen SourceSaaSSearch EngineSoftware
Responsibilities
Own and evolve the architecture and roadmap for Search, Context Engineering, and Agent Building
Define and enhance the end-to-end developer and user experience across use-cases
Collaborate with the team owning Elasticsearch and other engineering teams across Elastic to align priorities and make smart technology and design choices
Lead technical discussions with partners and customers to ensure our solutions meet real needs
Review and advise implementation designs
Evangelize the Search roadmap internally and externally
Mentor engineers and foster technical excellence
Qualification
Required
Proven experience as technical leader for large, complex engineering teams and projects
Deep expertise in Java/JVM, search technologies, context engineering, experience building complex distributed systems, or understanding of the inner workings of databases/datastores
Passionate about Search
Able to reason about architecture at both high and detailed levels
Hands-on: comfortable coding, reviewing PRs, and staying close to the team's work
Excellent communicator, collaborator, and problem solver
Operates with high autonomy
Preferred
Extensive technical leadership in search
Experience with the Elastic Stack
Built search products at scale
Open-source project leadership or major contributions
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
Elastic
Elastic builds software to make data usable in real time and at scale for search, logging, security, and analytics use cases.
Founded in 2012
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2024 (1)
2022 (2)
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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
Recent News
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