Distinguished Engineer - Search · Elastic

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 15:44:54 GMT
Engineering

Elastic · United States · $249,700-$394,900 USD · remote

As a Distinguished Engineer on Elastic's Search team, you will be the technical leader shaping the architecture and vision for Elastic's Search products. You will own and evolve 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, collaborate with the team owning Elasticsearch and other engineering teams across Elastic, and lead technical discussions with partners and customers to ensure our solutions meet real needs.

You will review and advise implementation designs, evangelize the Search roadmap internally and externally, and mentor engineers and foster technical excellence. You will bring proven experience as a 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.

You will be 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. You will be an excellent communicator, collaborator, and problem solver, operating with high autonomy.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to work on a wide range of challenging projects, collaborate with a talented team of engineers, and contribute to the development of Elastic's Search products.