Senior Software Engineer, Elasticsearch

Senior Search And Data Focused Engineer

The Elasticsearch team at GitHub owns the infrastructure and code that powers searching Issues, Pull Requests, Projects, Discussions and more. We're responsible for the creation and management of large-scale Elasticsearch clusters (hundreds of terabytes of data serving multiple thousands of reads and writes per second). Our problem space also includes optimizing index creation, population, repair and reindex processes to ensure that indexes with billions or trillions of records are recoverable, correctly mapped, and can be restored quickly. At the same time we're also focused on pushing the boundaries of cluster management, scale and availability.

We're looking for a senior search and data focused engineer to join the team and help us build the future of Search at GitHub. Our top priorities include scaling support for both agentic and human-driven traffic, improving relevance tooling for teams that build search experiences, and building an API-driven interface between our relational data and search indexes.

Responsibilities

• Infrastructure Development and Management
• Site Availability and Performance
• Elasticsearch Infrastructure and Management
• Troubleshooting
• Collaboration

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 6+ years technical and/or management experience in infrastructure domains (e.g., container orchestration engineering, platform engineering, database engineering, software engineering, network engineering, systems administration, or related field) OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years technical experience in infrastructure domains (e.g., container orchestration engineering, platform engineering, database engineering, software engineering, network engineering, systems administration, or related field) OR equivalent experience.
• 1+ year(s) technical leadership experience.
• 6+ years experience of Building, deploying and maintaining Elasticsearch at scale.
• 3+ years experience using general purpose programming languages (e.g., Go, Ruby, or Rust).

Preferred Qualifications

• 6+ years experience with Lucene/Apache based search engines such as Elasticsearch, Opensearch or Solr.
• 6+ years experience with Search Relevance, Scoring and building Search Experiences and with Infrastructure as code, configuration management and associated tooling such as Terraform, Puppet and Ansible.
• 3 years+ experience in one or more scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python, or a similar language).

GitHub Values

• Customer-obsessed
• Ship to learn
• Growth mindset
• Own the outcome
• Better together
• Diverse and inclusive

Manager Fundamentals

• Model
• Coach
• Care

Leadership Principles

• Create clarity
• Generate energy
• Deliver success