Search - Distinguished Engineer I

As a Distinguished Engineer at Elastic, you will be leading the architecture and roadmap for Search, Context Engineering, and Agent Building. You will define and enhance the end-to-end developer and user experience across use-cases and collaborate with the team owning Elasticsearch and other engineering teams across Elastic.

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

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 minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave