Elastic
Enterprise · Search
- HQ
- Mountain View, US
- Founded
- 2012
- Website
- elastic.co
Enterprise · Search
Elastic has 28 active AI-related job listings, with a significant focus on roles related to agents, which constitute 86% of their openings. The majority of these positions are within Engineering. The company is hiring across the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada. Recurring technical tags include vector_db, RAG, and model_serving, suggesting a focus on building and deploying AI applications that leverage external knowledge.
Currently tracking 16 active AI roles, up 55% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $192k–$593k (avg $307k).
Elastic currently has 30 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Senior Software Engineer - Search Relevance in ES|QL - Elasticsearch (6), Principal Software Engineer - Vector Search - Elasticsearch (5), Senior Software Engineer - SSC (4), Principal AI Ecosystem Architect - OpenAI/Anthropic (2), Principal Product Manager Agents and Context - Elasticsearch (2). Most positions are in Engineering and Research.
Elastic's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (87%), application (10%), serving infrastructure (3%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Elastic is hiring AI talent in: United States (16 roles), United Kingdom (7 roles), Spain (4 roles), Canada (3 roles).
Job postings at Elastic most frequently mention: Observability, Data Governance, Content Generation, Cloud Security, Cloud Infrastructure.
In the past 30 days, Elastic has posted 23 new AI-related roles. That is a +92% change versus the prior 30 days (12 → 23).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Principal Software Engineer - Vector Search - Elasticsearch Principal Software Engineer to enhance vector similarity search functionality within Elasticsearch, focusing on design, implementation, and bug resolution for a leading vector database offering. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer - Vector Search - Elasticsearch Principal Software Engineer to enhance vector similarity search functionality within Elasticsearch, focusing on building new features, improving existing ones, and resolving bugs for an industry-leading vector database offering. The role involves deep technical contributions to Lucene and Elasticsearch, potentially inventing new algorithms or data structures, and collaborating with a global team and the open-source community. | Agent |
| 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer - Vector Search - Elasticsearch Principal Software Engineer role focused on enhancing vector similarity search functionality within Elasticsearch, aiming to create an industry-leading vector database offering. This involves designing and implementing new features, improving existing ones, and resolving bugs, with a strong emphasis on performance and relevance. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer - Vector Search - Elasticsearch Principal Software Engineer to enhance vector similarity search functionality within Elasticsearch, focusing on design, implementation, and bug resolution for a leading vector database offering. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Storage Engine - Elasticsearch Senior Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Storage Engine team. This role is responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing Elasticsearch's core storage and query engine, with a strong focus on storage, indexing, query execution, and performance optimization. The ideal candidate has experience building high-performance, scalable database, search, or distributed systems. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Storage Engine - Elasticsearch Senior Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Storage Engine team. This role is responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing Elasticsearch's core storage and query engine, with a strong focus on storage, indexing, query execution, and performance optimization. Experience building high-performance, scalable database, search, or distributed systems is ideal. The role involves leading architectural evolution, driving cross-organizational initiatives for observability solutions, and working with a globally distributed team. Requires strong core Java skills and experience with data storage technologies. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Storage Engine - Elasticsearch Senior Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Storage Engine team, focusing on core storage and query technologies for observability workloads. Responsibilities include designing, implementing, and optimizing Elasticsearch's storage and query engine, improving storage efficiency, advancing ES|QL query processing, and optimizing data layouts. Requires strong Java skills and experience with high-performance, scalable database/search/distributed systems. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Storage Engine - Elasticsearch Senior Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Storage Engine team. This role is responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing Elasticsearch's core storage and query engine, focusing on storage efficiency, query processing, and data layouts for observability workloads. Requires experience building high-performance, scalable database, search, or distributed systems, with a strong focus on storage, indexing, query execution, and performance optimization. Must have strong core Java skills and experience with data storage technologies. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Storage Engine - Elasticsearch Senior Software Engineer for Elasticsearch's Storage Engine team, focusing on core storage and query technologies for observability workloads. Responsibilities include architectural evolution, performance optimization, and developing high-performance, scalable database/search/distributed systems. The role emphasizes Java development, distributed systems, and leveraging AI tools for development acceleration and debugging. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Storage Engine - Elasticsearch Senior Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Storage Engine team. This role is responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing Elasticsearch's core storage and query engine, focusing on storage efficiency, query processing, and data layouts. The ideal candidate has experience building high-performance, scalable database, search, or distributed systems. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Developer - Storage Engine - Elasticsearch Senior Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Storage Engine team. This role is responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing Elasticsearch's core storage and query engine, focusing on storage efficiency, query processing, and data layouts. The ideal candidate has experience building high-performance, scalable database, search, or distributed systems. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Storage Engine - Elasticsearch Senior Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Storage Engine team, responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing Elasticsearch's core storage and query engine. Focus on high-performance, scalable database, search, or distributed systems, with a strong emphasis on storage, indexing, query execution, and performance optimization for observability workloads. Requires strong Java skills and experience with data storage technologies. | — | 5 |
| Senior Java Engineer - Core/Infra - Elasticsearch Senior Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch team, focusing on core infrastructure, shared platform functionalities, and enabling developers. The role involves contributing to large projects, designing scalable features, solving complex issues, and improving observability. While the company is an AI company and the role mentions integrating agentic apps and using AI to accelerate development, the core craft of this role is building and maintaining the foundational infrastructure of Elasticsearch, not directly shipping AI models or agents as the primary deliverable. The role touches on AI tools for development acceleration but doesn't build AI models themselves. | — | 5 |
| Senior Solution Architect This role is for a Senior Solutions Architect at Elastic, a company focused on Search AI. The architect will act as a technical advisor to sales teams, customers, and partners, helping them understand and solve business problems using Elastic's platform. Responsibilities include understanding customer needs, demonstrating product value, enabling partners, and providing customer feedback to engineering teams. The role requires a strong technical presales background, experience in enterprise search, observability, or cybersecurity, and excellent communication and influencing skills. | — | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer - Vector Search - Elasticsearch Principal Software Engineer to enhance vector similarity search functionality within Elasticsearch, focusing on design, implementation, and bug resolution for a leading vector database offering. | AgentServe | 5 |
| Elastic Consulting Architect - Public Sector This role is for an Elastic Consulting Architect focused on the Public Sector in the UK. The primary responsibilities involve customer advocacy, relationship building, strategic roadmap ownership, and solution design using Elastic products. While the company mentions AI and its platform, the core of this role is consulting, solution architecture, and delivery of Elastic's search, security, and observability solutions, not direct AI/ML model development or research. The role requires strong technical skills in Elasticsearch, distributed systems, and data modeling, with a focus on mission-critical environments. | — | 0 |
| Senior Java Developer - Core/Infra - Elasticsearch Senior Software Developer to join the Elasticsearch team, focusing on ensuring the core infrastructure and shared platform functionalities of Elasticsearch are easy to use, performant, maintainable, and secure. The role involves contributing to large projects, designing and implementing scalable features, solving complex issues, and improving observability. The developer will also integrate agentic apps into development workflows and own operational investigations. | — | 0 |
| Senior Go To Market Recruiter This role is for a Senior Go To Market Recruiter at Elastic, a company that provides a Search AI Platform. The recruiter will be responsible for the full hiring process for various roles within Field Operations, including Sales Development Reps, Customer Support, and Account Executives. The role requires 3+ years of recruiting experience, strong relationship-building skills, and the ability to manage multiple requisitions in a fast-paced environment. | — | 0 |