Principal Search Consulting Architect

Elastic
United States
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 159,800 - 252,800 annuallyFunction: Consulting & AdvisoryExperience: 8+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Elasticsearch","Java","Python","Go","Docker","Kubernetes","Terraform","AWS","Azure","GCP","Lucene","KNN","ANN","RAG"]

Lead enterprise Elasticsearch architecture and migrations for Fortune 500 customers, shaping regional standards, driving high-scale vector search and AI-enabled retrieval, and mentoring global engineering teams to deliver scalable, Cloud-native Elasticsearch solutions.

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Principal Search Consulting Architect

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Job Summary

Lead enterprise Elasticsearch architecture and migrations for Fortune 500 customers, shaping regional standards, driving high-scale vector search and AI-enabled retrieval, and mentoring global engineering teams to deliver scalable, Cloud-native Elasticsearch solutions.
Location: United States
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Consulting & Advisory
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Translate highly complex business requirements into resilient, next-generation enterprise retrieval architectures built on distributed Elasticsearch environments.
  • •Lead the overarching technical strategy and design authority for high-stakes customer engagements—from node blueprinting and capacity planning to custom mappings, shard strategy, ILM, and cross-cluster replication.
  • •Design and operationalize semantic search architectures utilizing vector databases and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines.
  • •Profile, benchmark, and tune distributed search and indexing performance for ultra-high-QPS environments with sub-second SLAs.
  • •Architect robust distributed ingestion strategies for petabyte-scale throughput and optimize cluster state performance.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 159,800 - 252,800 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health Insurance401kEquityPaid LeaveVolunteer HoursParental Leave

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years of experience as a Principal Architect, Lead Engineer, or Senior Systems Consultant with deep Elasticsearch expertise at massive scale.
  • •Elasticsearch internals mastery including consensus protocols, node roles, Lucene indexing, and cluster state management.
  • •AI-powered search expertise with production-grade semantic search using Elasticsearch native ML nodes, dense/sparse vector fields, and NLP/LLM integrations.
  • •Cloud-native infrastructure experience across AWS, Azure, GCP with Docker and Terraform.
  • •Proficiency in multiple languages (Java, Python, Go) with Elasticsearch client libraries and plugin development.
Experience:8+ yearsElasticSearchDistributed systemsAiEnterprise
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:ElasticsearchJavaPythonGoDockerKubernetesTerraformAWSAzureGCPLuceneKNNANNRAG
Languages:English
Tech Stack:ElasticsearchJavaPythonGoDockerTerraformAWSAzureGCPKubernetesLuceneKNNANNRAG

Company Brief

Elastic
Builds the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, Logstash) and provides search, observability, and security solutions that enable organizations to search, analyze, and protect data in real time across applications, infrastructure, and enterprises.
Industry: Data Infrastructure
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Founded: 2012
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