Requirements:

Experience leading technical projects in the search infrastructure and distributed systems space.
Experience mentoring expert engineers, providing both technical and professional guidance.
Experience defining a long-term technical vision for a core search or retrieval system, working across teams and organizations to collaboratively shape the technical roadmap.
Hands-on experience with search and indexing technologies such as Elasticsearch, Lucene, or Solr.
Strong skills in core Java and familiarity with advanced data structures and concurrency constructs, as well as newer language features like lambdas.
Able to work with a high level of autonomy, tackling projects and guiding them from concept to completion.
Experience with large-scale data or search systems such as Elasticsearch, Lucene, Solr, or distributed storage engines.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Nice to haves:

You've built things with Elasticsearch before, and you have experience in the search and information retrieval space.
Experience working with open source projects and familiar with different styles of source control workflow and continuous integration.

Define, lead, and contribute to the evolution of core search and indexing capabilities.
Research advances in search infrastructure, data structures, and retrieval algorithms.
Work closely with partners and product teams to understand their needs and shape the technical vision for search at Elastic.
Drive an innovative roadmap for Elasticsearch’s indexing, query execution, and relevance layers.
Be the go-to expert for certain areas of Elasticsearch, continuously improving them.

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.
Matching donations for financial donations and service, up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent)
Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love.
Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.