Senior Java Software Engineer (Search Inference, Platform)

Join our Elasticsearch team as a Senior Java Software Engineer. You will drive the development of the Inference API, which integrates Elasticsearch with external machine learning services. Your work will involve maintaining and developing the plugin framework and REST API, building and maintaining integrations with internal systems and external inference providers, and contributing to the internal architecture of the inference plugin. You will also review open source contributions, participate in on-call rotation, and write thorough tests. Enjoy benefits such as fully paid health coverage, flexible location and schedule, generous vacation days, parental leave, volunteer time, and charitable giving matching.

• Contribuer au développement et à la maintenance de l'API d'inférence d'Elasticsearch, en intégrant des services d'apprentissage automatique externes.
• Collaborer avec l'équipe d'inférence et l'équipe Kibana pour concevoir et mettre en œuvre des fonctionnalités telles que la recherche sémantique et le reranking.
• Participer à la révision des contributions open source au code et travailler avec des ingénieurs tiers pour garantir le respect des normes technologiques.

• 5+ years of production Java experience, with experience contributing to a large, established Java codebase. You know core Java and are conversant in the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs, as well as newer language features
• You can work autonomously, drive decisions and results in a distributed team by leveraging asynchronous, direct, and transparent communication
• You possess the ability to collaborate across functions and teams and seamlessly transition between different projects, codebases, or teams based on business priorities
• Experience with low-level Java such as concurrency, parallelism, classloaders, etc
• Experience crafting ergonomic APIs and the ability to reason through trade-offs
• You have a proven track record of using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and optimize code, while still owning the final outcomes
• Knowledge of Java build tools (Gradle, Maven, etc.), with a strong preference for Gradle experience
• Experience working in a platform team or developer productivity team
• Contributions to and ownership of open source projects
• Experience with ML systems
• Knowledge of JDK internals: modules, the Java memory model, garbage collection, database load, caching techniques, etc