89692d25-b19 Distinguished Engineer - Search 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.

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]]> full-time executive remote $249,700-$394,900 USD Java/JVM, Search technologies, Context engineering, Experience building complex distributed systems, Understanding of the inner workings of databases/datastores Engineering Technology Elastic https://logos.yubhub.co/elastic.co.png Elastic is a search AI company that enables everyone to find answers in real-time using all their data at scale. https://www.elastic.co/ https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/elastic/jobs/7520115?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply United States 2026-04-18 6e294862-edc Distinguished Engineer - Search 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.

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]]> full-time senior remote $240,600-$380,700 CAD Java/JVM, search technologies, context engineering, distributed systems, databases/data stores, Elastic Stack, search product development, open-source project leadership Engineering Technology Elastic, the Search AI Company https://logos.yubhub.co/elastic.co.png Elastic enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI. https://www.elastic.co/ https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/elastic/jobs/7520106?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply Canada 2026-04-18