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Elastic is seeking a Distinguished Engineer I to lead their Search team, focusing on developing and enhancing search technologies for real-world applications. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in engineering leadership, particularly with search technologies and distributed systems.
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Job Summary
You’ll be the technical leader shaping the architecture and vision for Elastic’s Search products, ensuring that using Elasticsearch for building applications, Agents, or as a context engineering Platform is easy to get started with and operate.
Own and evolve the architecture and roadmap for Search, Context Engineering, and Agent Building, and define and enhance the end-to-end developer and user experience across use-cases.
As a recognized leader in the search space, Elastic’s Search team connects our core technologies to real-world business needs, enabling our customers to build market leading applications and address critical business needs.
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Elastic is seeking a Distinguished Engineer I to lead their Search team, focusing on developing and enhancing search technologies for real-world applications. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in engineering leadership, particularly with search technologies and distributed systems.
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Salary
Base: $249,700—$394,900 USD; Base: $299,700—$474,000 USD in select locations; Equity: Eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program
Skills & Requirements
Must-have
technical leadership
large complex engineering teams
Java/JVM expertise
search technologies
distributed systems
hands-on coding
Nice-to-have
Elastic Stack experience
open-source project leadership
building search products at scale
Key Requirements
Proven experience as technical leader
Deep expertise in Java/JVM
Deep expertise in search technologies
Deep expertise in context engineering
Deep expertise in building complex distributed systems