Elastic is a free and open search company that powers enterprise search, observability, and security solutions built on one technology stack that can be deployed anywhere. From finding documents to monitoring infrastructure to hunting for threats, Elastic makes data usable in real-time and at scale. Thousands of organizations worldwide, including Barclays, Cisco, eBay, Fairfax, ING, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, The Mayo Clinic, NASA, The New York Times, Wikipedia, and Verizon, use Elastic to power mission-critical systems. Founded in 2012, Elastic is a distributed company with Elasticians around the globe. Learn more at elastic.co.

You will have the opportunity to work with a tremendous services, engineering and sales team and wear many hats.  This is a critical role, as a Search Specialist Technical Consultant, you have an amazing chance to make an immediate impact on the success of Elastic and our customers. 

• Deliver Elastic solutions and elastic stack expertise to drive customer business value from our products
• Facilitate strategy, roadmap, design, and capacity planning in mission-critical environments workshops
• Strong customer advocacy, relationship building, and communications skills
• Comfortable working remotely in a highly distributed team
• Development of demos and proof-of-concepts that highlight the value of the Elastic Stack and Solutions
• Elastic solutions adaption and acceleration along with data modeling, query development and optimization, cluster tuning and scaling with a focus on fast search and analytics at scale
• Drive and manage the objectives, requirements gathering, project tasks/milestone, project status, dependencies, and timelines, to ensure engagements are delivered successfully and on time while meeting the business objectives
• Working closely with the Elastic engineering, product management, and support teams to identify feature enhancements, extensions, and product defects. Facilitate feedback from field back to the product.
• Engaging with the Elastic Sales team to scope opportunities while assessing technical risks, questions, or concerns

• Minimum 3 years as a Search Engineer or Search Architect
• Elastic, Vector and GenAI preferred
• Deep knowledge of E-Commerce search solutions
• Experience with query development and relevancy tuning
• Knowledge of implementing and fine tuning of Natural Language Processing (NLP) use cases
• Understanding of the open source machine learning framework such as PyTorch

• Big 4 Experience
• Deep understanding of Elasticsearch, including Elastic Certified Engineer certification

• Deep understanding of Ansible, JavaScript, Terraform
• ECK experience or Kubernetes
• Knowledge of machine learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Strong knowledge of Java and Linux/Unix environment, software development, and/or experience with distributed systems
• Experience and interest in delivering and/or developing product training
• Experience contributing to an open-source project or documentation

As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

• 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
• Double your charitable giving - We match up to $1500 (or local currency equivalent)
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
• Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

Different people approach problems differently. We need that. Elastic is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. 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. To request an accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please email candidate_accessibility@elastic.co We will reply to your request within 24 business hours of submission.

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