Elastic Search Developer

Experience: 6-8 Years
Location: Bangalore/Hybrid
Employment Type: Full-Time

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Elasticsearch Developer with 6-8 years of hands-on experience in designing, developing, and optimizing enterprise search solutions. The ideal candidate should possess strong expertise in Elasticsearch, search relevance tuning, indexing strategies, query optimization, and distributed systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable search solutions using Elasticsearch.
• Build and optimize indexing pipelines for structured and unstructured data.
• Develop advanced search capabilities including full-text search, faceted search, filtering, autocomplete, and relevancy tuning.
• Monitor and improve search performance, cluster health, and query response times.
• Configure and manage Elasticsearch clusters in production environments.
• Implement data ingestion pipelines using Logstash, Beats, Kafka, or custom ETL processes.
• Work closely with application development teams to integrate Elasticsearch APIs.
• Perform capacity planning, cluster scaling, backup, and disaster recovery activities.
• Troubleshoot indexing, mapping, shard allocation, and performance issues.
• Ensure security, access control, and compliance across Elasticsearch deployments.

Required Skills

• 6-8 years of software development experience with at least 4+ years of Elasticsearch experience.
• Strong expertise in Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and the ELK Stack.
• Experience with Elasticsearch cluster administration and performance tuning.
• Strong understanding of:
• Indexing strategies
• Mappings and analyzers
• Sharding and replication
• Aggregations and Query DSL
• Search relevance tuning
• Experience with REST APIs and microservices architecture.
• Strong programming skills in Java, Python, or Node.js.
• Experience with Kafka, Redis, or other messaging/caching platforms.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience working with Docker and Kubernetes.