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