Distinguished Engineer - Search

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time using all their data. They are seeking a Distinguished Engineer to lead the architecture and vision for Elastic’s Search products, ensuring ease of use and flexibility for building applications and search experiences.

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

Requirements:

• 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
• Extensive technical leadership in search
• Experience with the Elastic Stack
• Built search products at scale
• Open-source project leadership or major contributions