At Elastic, we have a simple goal: to solve the world’s data problems with products that delight and inspire. As the company behind the popular open source projects — Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats — we help people around the world do great things with their data. From stock quotes to Twitter streams, Apache logs to WordPress blogs, our products are extending what’s possible with data, delivering on the promise that good things come from connecting the dots. We unite Elasticians across 30+ countries (and counting!), 18 timezones and 30 different languages into one coherent team, while the broader community spans across over 100 countries.
We’re searching for a lead App & Search focused Consultant who will have a heavy focus on front-end integration with our Elastic Swiftype customers. As such, interaction with various web technologies will be required in order to deliver a full solution involving this technology.
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 Consultants have an amazing chance to make an immediate impact on the success of Elastic and our customers.
What You Will Be Doing:
Developing and implementing search UI using JavaScript and JavaScript libraries on top of the Elastic Swiftype Search APIs (both Site and App Search)
Communicating with clients and colleagues to troubleshoot websites and optimize performance
Delivering Elastic solutions to drive customer business value from our products
Solution design, development, and integration of Elastic products and APIs, platform architecture, and capacity planning in mission-critical environments
Strong customer advocacy, relationship building, and communications skills
Comfortable working remotely in a highly distributed team
Developing of demos and proof-of-concepts that highlight the value of the Elastic Stack
Data modeling, query development and optimization, cluster tuning and scaling with a focus on fast search and analytics at scale
Working closely with the Elastic engineering, product management, and support teams to identify feature enhancements, extensions, and product defects
Engaging with the Elastic Sales team to scope opportunities while assessing technical risks, questions, or concerns
What You Bring Along:
5 years experience in a relevant role
JavaScript, HTML, CSS coding knowledge
Experience with multiple modern and legacy web development frameworks and CMSs
Able to quickly learn new products
REST-Based API Knowledge
Actively Seek New Programming Knowledge
Hands-on experience and an understanding of Elasticsearch and/or Lucene
Experience as a technical instructor or public speaker to large audiences on enterprise infrastructure software technology to engineers, developers, and other technical positions
Excel at working directly with customers to gather, prioritize, plan and execute solutions to customer business requirements as it relates to our technologies
Understanding and passion for open-source technology and knowledge and proficient in at least one programming language
Hands-on experience with large distributed systems from an architecture and development perspective
Knowledge of information retrieval and/or analytics domain
Ability to travel up to 65% of the time
Understanding of Linux, Java and databases
Bonus Points:
Deep understanding of Elasticsearch and Lucene, including Elastic Certified Engineer certification
React, Angular, Nodejs, Python, Ruby, RUM, or GoLang coding experience
BS, or MS in Computer Science or related engineering discipline
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
