Principal Software Developer - Vector Search - Elasticsearch
- Canada
- Remote
- Posted Aug 27, 2026
- 1 position
$154,000–$243,600 / year
Opens an external site
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Experience level
- Lead · 10+ years
- Posting language
- English
- Working hours
- 40 hours per week
Job summary
Lead initiatives to develop industry-leading vector database features within Elasticsearch and contribute to core search functionality. Collaborate with a globally distributed team to design, implement, and maintain high-performance search algorithms and data structures.
Job details
Lead initiatives to develop industry-leading vector database features within Elasticsearch and contribute to core search functionality. Collaborate with a globally distributed team to design, implement, and maintain high-performance search algorithms and data structures. Requires extensive professional experience with vector similarity algorithms like HNSW or IVF and strong proficiency in modern Java. Candidates must demonstrate a track record of working autonomously in distributed environments and possess excellent communication skills for asynchronous collaboration.
What you’ll do
Lead initiatives to develop industry-leading vector database features within Elasticsearch and contribute to core search functionality. Collaborate with a globally distributed team to design, implement, and maintain high-performance search algorithms and data structures.
Requirements
Requires extensive professional experience with vector similarity algorithms like HNSW or IVF and strong proficiency in modern Java. Candidates must demonstrate a track record of working autonomously in distributed environments and possess excellent communication skills for asynchronous collaboration.
Benefits
- Stock program
- Company-matched RRSP
- Health coverage
- Flexible schedules
- Vacation days
- Donation matching
- Volunteer time off
- Parental leave
Listed skills
- Java · Preferred
Other relevant skills
Identified from the job description. Confirm important requirements above.
- Java
- Elasticsearch
- Vector search
- Lucene
- HNSW
- IVF
- Algorithms
- Data structures
- Concurrency
- Distributed systems
- Software design
- Code review
- Asynchronous collaboration
- Search relevance
- Performance optimization
Job areas
- Software
- Technology
- Engineering
- Data & Analytics
More jobs from Elastic
Enterprise Account Executive
- Hybrid
- Toronto, ON
- Posted Oct 11, 2026
Demand Generation Coordinator, Customer Marketing
- Remote
- Canada
- Posted Oct 11, 2026
Senior Software Developer
- Remote
- Canada
- Posted Oct 10, 2026
Senior Software Engineer - EDR Workflows - Security
- Remote
- Canada, Florida, United States, Massachusetts, United States, Michigan, United States, Ohio, United States, Pennsylvania, United States, Tennessee, United States, Texas, United States, Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Posted Oct 9, 2026