[Remote] Senior Software Engineer - Vector Search - Elasticsearch

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Responsibilities

• reputed company initiatives reputed company 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, reputed company while making the code easier to understand
• Work with a globally distributed team of reputed company 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 reputed company they have a question about this area
• Work with community members from reputed company 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!

Skills

• You have implemented novel techniques in vector similarity on a search platform with a large user reputed company 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 reputed company library of data structures and concurrency constructs, as well as other features like lambdas
• You work with a high level of autonomy, and are reputed company to take on projects and guide them from beginning to end. This covers both technical design and working with other engineers to reputed company 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 asynchronous collaboration over the internet. That's even harder, but we do it anyway because it's the best way we know how to build software
• You've used several data storage technologies like Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, reputed company, or Cassandra and have some idea how they work and why they work that way
• 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 reputed company of our interactions. And we'd expect that from you too
• You've reputed company things with Elasticsearch before
• You've worked with reputed company reputed company projects and are familiar with different styles of reputed company control workflow and reputed company integration
• Experience with data storage technology
• You have experience designing, leading and owning cross-functional initiatives

Benefits

• reputed company's stock program
• Company-matched Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings
• reputed company 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
• 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 minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

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