Search - Developer Tools Software Engineer jobs at Elastic

You’ll bring deep hands-on expertise in designing, deploying, and optimizing search platforms—ranging from traditional Elasticsearch-based Enterprise Search to modern semantic and vector search architectures (e.g., embeddings, RAG, hybrid search systems). You should be comfortable operating in cloud-native environments (AWS/Azure/GCP), implementing robust indexing pipelines, tuning search relevance, and scaling for performance and cost-efficiency.

• Architect and implement advanced Enterprise Search , Vector Search , and Semantic/RAG systems for large-scale deployments.
• Develop and implement Technical Success Plans tailored to each customer, covering indexing pipelines, query relevance (e.g., recall@k, latency), vector similarity performance, and adoption metrics.
• Lead the full customer lifecycle: onboarding, proof-of-concept (POC), rollout, adoption, escalation, and expansion.
• Design RAG and semantic search workflows using embedding models (LLM, ELSER, Hugging Face, LangChain, etc.).
• Optimize search relevance and performance: tuning indices, scaling clusters, running vectors, and conducting A/B tests.
• Partner with Sales, Pre‑Sales, Services, and Support to align technical strategy and customer satisfaction.
• Monitor usage, diagnose adoption gaps, and proactively propose expansions and upsells aligned with ARR goals.

• 8–12+ years building and operating enterprise search systems , including vector and semantic search.
• Strong experience with Elastic or similar platforms: Elasticsearch, Pinecone, Qdrant, Milvus, Weaviate.
• Authority in embedding‑based retrieval, LLM integration, RAG pipelines, and vector database architecture.
• Consistent track record of designing scalable, performant search infrastructure on cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Excellent communicator able to present technical designs and business impact to both technical and executive audiences.
• Data-driven mentality: adept at measuring search performance (e.g., latency, throughput, recall) and acting on insights.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. Previous roles in Solution Architecture, Pre‑Sales Engineering, or Customer Success focused on search/AI applications.

• Hands-on experience with RAG systems , chat/search applications, and open-source contributions.
• Understanding of vector database internals: ANN algorithms, indexing strategies, recall/precision evaluation.
• Familiarity with embedding model tuning and search relevance optimization frameworks.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions, and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

• 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 a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws and can view the following posters linked below:

Elasticsearch develops and distributes technology and information that is subject to U.S. and other country export controls and licensing requirements for individuals who are located in or are nationals of the following sanctioned countries and regions: Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Syria, the Crimea Region of Ukraine, the Donetsk People’s Republic (“DNR”), and the Luhansk People’s Republic (“LNR”). If you are located in or are a national of one of the listed countries or regions, an export license may be required as a condition of your employment in this role. Please note that national origin and/or nationality do not affect eligibility for employment with Elastic

Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary plus a variable component, that together comprise the On-Target Earnings (OTE). On-Target Earnings (OTE) are based on a 70/30 pay mix (base salary / target variable).

The typical starting OTE range for new hires in this role is listed below. This range represents the lowest to highest OTE we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future.

An employee's position within the OTE range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

The typical starting salary range for this role is:

$107,500—$170,100 USD

The typical starting Target Variable range for this role is:

$46,000—$72,800 USD

The typical starting On-Target Earnings (OTE) range for this role is:

$153,500—$242,900 USD

In this role, you'll become the evangelist for Elastic Observability's technical capabilities. You'll set up the infrastructure for product demos, build hands-on workshops, create compelling videos, write insightful blogs, and share your expertise through webinars, ElasticON presentations, and industry conferences. Your work will directly influence how we engage with our community and prospects.

• Maintain and improve demo environments to effectively showcase compelling use cases as new product features are released.
• Develop impactful demos and demo scripts that showcase use cases and workflows that empower the field to deliver differentiated demos and successful POCs.
• Streamline automation and processes to ensure demo maintenance is efficient, reliable, and scalable.
• Provide timely training and update content to enable the field team with the latest product capabilities.
• Develop technical pitch presentations to enable and activate solution architects and other technical resource
• Author technical blogs that highlight Elastic’s technology and platform, driving thought leadership and engagement.
• Deliver technical enablement sessions, including demo recordings and webinars, to educate and encourage.
• Influence the product roadmap by providing market and customer insights that shape priorities.
• Measure and track demo usage and adoption to continuously improve efficiency and impact.
• Represent Elastic at industry events, showcasing our products and engaging with the community.
• Assist in technical benchmarking for competitive intelligence content and evaluation

• Extensive experience in observability, developer tools, or cloud-related domains, with a strong ability to engage technical audiences such as SOC analyst, Threat analyst, Security engineer, Security architect
• Shown ability to build compelling content across various formats, including blog posts, presentations, and videos, that resonates with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Broad software development expertise, particularly in Python, Go, and shell scripting, with a focus on automating demo environments and workflows.
• Hands-on experience with technologies like Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform, enabling you to craft and deliver robust demos and proof of concepts.
• Strong familiarity with deploying and operating workloads in cloud environments, specifically within AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain sophisticated technical concepts to non-experts through blogs, videos, customer discussions, and webinars.
• Comfortable growing in a multi-functional role, collaborating successfully with a highly distributed and diverse team.

• Practitioner-level knowledge and experience in the observability or monitoring domain.
• Previous experience as a Technical Marketing Engineer or Pre-Sales Engineer, particularly with cloud technologies.
• Hands-on experience implementing one or more of Elastic’s solutions in real-world customer environments.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions, and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

• 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 a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws and can view the following posters linked below:

Elasticsearch develops and distributes technology and information that is subject to U.S. and other country export controls and licensing requirements for individuals who are located in or are nationals of the following sanctioned countries and regions: Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Syria, the Crimea Region of Ukraine, the Donetsk People’s Republic (“DNR”), and the Luhansk People’s Republic (“LNR”). If you are located in or are a national of one of the listed countries or regions, an export license may be required as a condition of your employment in this role. Please note that national origin and/or nationality do not affect eligibility for employment with Elastic

Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component.

These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the ranges may be modified in the future.

An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

The typical starting salary range for this role is:

$135,700—$214,700 USD

$163,100—$258,100 USD

• Taking an engineering approach in leading technical initiatives for automating network engineering efforts to guarantee the reliability of the global Elastic infrastructure.
• Growing our global Platform infrastructure to meet the increasing scaling demands by developing and maintaining software, tooling and automations.
• Collaborating in an environment with an inclusive approach, and focusing on operational excellence, and uplifting others.
• Responding to and preventing repeated customer impact in response to major incidents and prioritized problem management. Our on call rotation uses follow-the-sun model where everyone participates in it in (mostly) their working hours.

• Success and lessons of experiences from striving for 'progress not perfection' in the name of Platform reliability. We want to hear about your customer first approach in solving operational problems with a SRE perspective.
• A background in software engineering to collaborate with engineers to expertly identify, implement and deliver solutions. An experience in public cloud and managed Kubernetes services is advantageous.
• Passion for developing solutions that involve inclusive communication methods to grow and strengthen partner and team relationships. Examples of working in distributed teams or working remotely is desirable.

You don't need to have all of these items, but these represent the types of work you will do as a Site Reliability Engineer at Elastic.

• You have operated a SaaS product in a public cloud ideally built using Infrastructure-as-Code tooling such as Crossplane or Terraform
• You have built or operated a Kubernetes-at-scale infrastructure, ideally across multiple cloud providers, and the vital automation to support it.
• You have written non-trivial programs in Golang or other programming languages.
• You have worked with containerized services (such as Docker.)
• You have proven experience in leading and improving alerting and major incident management standard processes metrics systems (e.g. Elastic Stack, Graphite, Prometheus, Influx) to diagnose issues and quantify impacts to present to others at varying level of the organization.
• You have experience in system administration with professional skills in Linux on distributed systems at scale.
• You have diagnosed or designed, implemented and created solutions with the Elastic Stack.
• You are experienced in thriving in a self-organizing and sharing in a globally distributed team environment.
• You strengthen team members in bringing out the best of each other by uplifting others with coaching and mentoring.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions, and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

• 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 a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws and can view the following posters linked below:

Elasticsearch develops and distributes technology and information that is subject to U.S. and other country export controls and licensing requirements for individuals who are located in or are nationals of the following sanctioned countries and regions: Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Syria, the Crimea Region of Ukraine, the Donetsk People’s Republic (“DNR”), and the Luhansk People’s Republic (“LNR”). If you are located in or are a national of one of the listed countries or regions, an export license may be required as a condition of your employment in this role. Please note that national origin and/or nationality do not affect eligibility for employment with Elastic

Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component.

These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the ranges may be modified in the future.

An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

The typical starting salary range for this role is:

$110,900—$175,500 USD

$133,200—$210,700 USD

• Lead initiatives within to produce an industry-leading vector database offering, supplying unparalleled speed and relevance in search.
• Contribute to Elasticsearch full time, building new search features and fixing intriguing bugs, all while making the code easier to understand. Sometimes you'll need to invent a new algorithm or data structure. Or find one and implement it. Sometimes you'll need to get close to the operating system and hardware.
• Work with a globally distributed team of experienced engineers focused on the vector search capabilities of Elasticsearch.
• Be an expert on how Elasticsearch implements vector similarity in support of search relevance and everyone will turn to you when they have a question about this area. You'll improve this area based on your questions and your instincts.
• Work with community members from all over the world on issues and pull requests, sometimes triaging them and handing them off to other experts and sometimes handling them yourself.
• Write idiomatic modern Java -- Elasticsearch is 99.8% Java!

• You have implemented novel techniques in vector similarity on a search platform with a large user base or progressed the field of academic research in vector similarity information retrieval.
• Professional experience with vector similarity and vector databases, and you used HNSW, IVF, or other relevant algorithms and libraries on search platforms at scale.
• You have strong skills in core Java and are conversant in the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs, as well as other features like lambdas.
• You work with a high level of autonomy, and are able to take on projects and guide them from beginning to end. This covers both technical design and working with other engineers to develop needed components.
• You're comfortable developing collaboratively. Giving and receiving feedback on code and approaches and APIs is hard! Bonus points if you've collaborated over the internet because that's harder. Double bonus points for asynchronous collaboration over the internet. That's even harder, but we do it anyway because it's the best way we know how to build software.
• You've used several data storage technologies like Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra and have some idea how they work and why they work that way.
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills. Like we said, collaborating on the internet is hard. We try to be respectful, empathetic, and trusting in all of our interactions. And we'd expect that from you too.

• You've built things with Elasticsearch before.
• You've worked with open source projects and are familiar with different styles of source control workflow and continuous integration.
• Experience with data storage technology.
• You have experience designing, leading and owning cross-functional initiatives

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions, and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

• 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 a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws and can view the following posters linked below:

Elasticsearch develops and distributes technology and information that is subject to U.S. and other country export controls and licensing requirements for individuals who are located in or are nationals of the following sanctioned countries and regions: Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Syria, the Crimea Region of Ukraine, the Donetsk People’s Republic (“DNR”), and the Luhansk People’s Republic (“LNR”). If you are located in or are a national of one of the listed countries or regions, an export license may be required as a condition of your employment in this role. Please note that national origin and/or nationality do not affect eligibility for employment with Elastic

Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component.

These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the ranges may be modified in the future.

An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

The typical starting salary range for this role is:

$159,800—$252,800 USD

$191,900—$303,500 USD

Executive Messaging & Content Development

• Develop clear, concise, and compelling messaging that communicates the business impact of Elastic’s platform and solutions to C-level audiences.
• Create executive-facing content for marketing campaigns, sales enablement, analyst engagements, and Executive Briefing Programs.
• Partner with campaign and field teams to drive interest and engagement from executive buyers through tailored digital, field, and ABM programs.
• Translate complex technical use cases into simplified messaging focused on business outcomes like cost savings, efficiency gains, and risk reduction.

Storytelling, Proof Points & Value Communication

• Collaborate with customer advocacy and value engineering to surface and optimize customer stories that highlight ROI and business outcomes.
• Support the development of third-party research, surveys, and customer studies to generate insights and proof points for executive content.
• Build assets that enable sellers and partners to effectively engage and influence business stakeholders in the buying process.
• Support the “Customer Zero” program by creating awareness of how Elastic uses its own technology to drive business value internally.

Cross-functional Alignment & Campaign Execution

• Collaborate with product marketing, demand gen, communications, and sales enablement teams to align messaging across touchpoints.
• Ensure executive messaging is consistently represented across global campaigns, thought leadership, and key regional events.
• Help maintain an internal knowledge base of business value content and train field teams on how to use it effectively.

• 2–3 years of experience in product/solution marketing, B2B marketing programs targeting executive buyers, or consulting experience
• Strong storytelling, writing, and communication skills, especially for simplifying technical concepts for business leaders
• Proven ability to build content that drives engagement and supports pipeline generation at the executive level
• Collaborative approach and experience working cross-functionally across product, sales, and marketing teams
• Ability to synthesize insights from customer stories, research, and product use cases into compelling narratives and proof points

• Familiarity with enterprise technologies such as cloud, security, observability, search, or generative AI
• Experience working with or selling to enterprise executive stakeholders (CIO, CTO, CISO, CDO, etc.)
• Executive communications or analyst relations experience is a plus
• BA/BS in Marketing, Business, or a related field

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions, and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

• 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 a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws and can view the following posters linked below:

Elasticsearch develops and distributes technology and information that is subject to U.S. and other country export controls and licensing requirements for individuals who are located in or are nationals of the following sanctioned countries and regions: Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Syria, the Crimea Region of Ukraine, the Donetsk People’s Republic (“DNR”), and the Luhansk People’s Republic (“LNR”). If you are located in or are a national of one of the listed countries or regions, an export license may be required as a condition of your employment in this role. Please note that national origin and/or nationality do not affect eligibility for employment with Elastic

Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component. The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is listed below.

These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the ranges may be modified in the future.

An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

The typical starting salary range for this role is:

$101,900—$161,200 CAD

• Working alongside our software engineers, platform and design team to define product features and initiatives for a new conversational and agentic AI search experience
• Representing the complete set of personas that use the product and ensure that the flows are coherent across the various personas and life-cycle of product usage.
• Prioritizing the components of the product roadmap and helping ensure feature development can proceed efficiently.
• Gathering market data, customer feedback, customer usage data, and other key information to develop product insights and help drive the product roadmap.
• Meeting with existing and prospective customers to better understand their goals and gather feedback on how our products can best address their challenges.
• Assisting with Product Marketing efforts to develop messaging and collateral and deliver that information to stakeholders both internally and externally.
• Analyzing and addressing competitive dynamics within the product category.

• Relevant Experience launching and building a search or AI application for use cases such as Customer support, E-commerce, or Enterprise Search
• Proven experience in Product Management, preferably in an enterprise-focused product environment
• Startup-mentality and experience appreciated.
• Outstanding spoken and written communication and storytelling skills!
• Working knowledge of SaaS and/or IaaS product domains, including common design patterns, workflows, and delivery mechanisms.
• Empathy for the challenges of builders & operators turning them into opportunities in the short and long-term.
• A marked interest in new market-defining technologies such as RAG and LLMs is highly regarded.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions, and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

• 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 a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws and can view the following posters linked below:

Elasticsearch develops and distributes technology and information that is subject to U.S. and other country export controls and licensing requirements for individuals who are located in or are nationals of the following sanctioned countries and regions: Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Syria, the Crimea Region of Ukraine, the Donetsk People’s Republic (“DNR”), and the Luhansk People’s Republic (“LNR”). If you are located in or are a national of one of the listed countries or regions, an export license may be required as a condition of your employment in this role. Please note that national origin and/or nationality do not affect eligibility for employment with Elastic

Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component.

These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the ranges may be modified in the future.

An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

The typical starting salary range for this role is:

$159,900—$210,600 USD

$159,900—$232,900 USD