Search - Extract and Transform - Senior Software Engineer

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. 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 to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Elasticsearch - Extract and Transformation team. You will be working collaboratively in a distributed working environment delivering valuable features for the Elastic Search solution. We’re seeking a versatile software engineer and communicator to help push the product and team to new heights. The team is responsible for data ingestion from a wide range of content sources and our web crawler. We are extending our charter to adopt this data into more GenAI use cases.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Contributing to the development of large-scale extraction and transformation applications, ideally in an LLM context.
• Collaborating with and mentoring international teammates in a mostly text-based, asynchronous, remote-first team environment with occasional video calls and yearly conferences.
• Being hands-on with the team and codebase, reviewing work and providing constructive feedback.
• Collaborating with the team on features, breaking them down into technical deliverables.
• Acting as an important and communicative part of an engaged and spirited team, working with data scientists and product teams to integrate AI-driven solutions.

What You Bring:

• Experience building software using Ruby and/or Python.
• Previous experience building and maintaining ETL pipelines and processes.
• Previous experience with operational components of modern web applications including asynchronous job queues, daemonized services, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Previous experience with open source.
• Excellent practical judgment.
• Measured and articulated written and spoken communication skills.
• An interest in learning new tools, languages, workflows, and philosophies that can help you grow.
• Experience with GenAI, LLMs, and RAG is a plus.
• Frontend experience, especially with Typescript/React is also a plus.

If this sounds interesting, we would love to hear from you! Please include whatever info you believe is relevant: resume, GitHub profile, code samples, blog posts and writing samples, links to personal projects, etc.

Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People:

• As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity.
• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary.
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations.
• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
• Generous number of vacation days each year.
• Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service.
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love.
• Embracing parenthood with a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.

Elastic is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation. We welcome individuals with disabilities and strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all individuals.