Distinguished Engineer - Search · Elastic, the Search AI Company

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 15:41:38 GMT
Engineering

Elastic, the Search AI Company · Canada · $240,600-$380,700 CAD · remote

As a recognized leader in the search space, Elastic's Search team connects our core technologies, from Elasticsearch, to our GPU-based inference service, to real-world business needs, enabling our customers to build market leading applications and address critical business needs.

We build everything from foundational infrastructure that extends Elasticsearch, to user-facing features like Agent Builder that enable customers to create powerful search and Agentic experiences. You'll be the technical leader shaping the architecture and vision for Elastic's Search products, ensuring that using Elasticsearch for building applications, Agents, or as a context engineering Platform is easy to get started with and operate, while preserving the flexibility to configure every aspect of search & relevance.

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/data stores

Passion about Search

Ability to reason about architecture at both high and detailed levels

Hands-on experience: comfortable coding, reviewing PRs, and staying close to the team’s work

Excellent communicator, collaborator, and problem solver

Operates with high autonomy

Bonus Points

Extensive technical leadership in search.

Experience with the Elastic Stack.

Built search products at scale.

Open-source project leadership or major contributions.