Job brief: Senior Software Engineer - Vector Search - Elasticsearch

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• Listed on Elastic's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-06 (1 day ago); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-07.
• The apply link opens jobs.elastic.co, the address Elastic's board gives for this job.
• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
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What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: EUR 87,300 to EUR 138,100 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: Ireland · United States
• Posted: 2026-08-27 · over 60 days ago

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Senior. The title says "Senior".

Must have

• Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
• 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.

Main duties

• Lead initiatives within Elasticsearch to produce an industry-leading search engine 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.
• Work with a globally distributed team of experienced engineers focused on the vector search capabilities of Elasticsearch.
• 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 …
• Write idiomatic modern Java -- Elasticsearch is 99.8% Java!

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for software engineer jobs across the U.S.: $187k a year (1,148 listings, 68 employers). This listing does not publish pay to compare.
• Across Elastic's 159 open listings, 33% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Elastic hires

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