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Job responsibilities

  • Analyze, store and search huge volumes of data
  • Build customer-facing technology products
  • Manage and improve Elasticsearch clusters performance
  • Contribute by suggesting new initiatives to help your team make innovative choices

Minimum requirements

  • Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in computer science (or equivalent experience)
  • 3+ years of Elasticsearch experience in production (rare exceptions for highly skilled developers)
  • Experience with Java, REST APIs, etc.
  • Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases
  • Capability to work full-time (40 hours/week) and overlap 4+hours with U.S. time zones
  • Strong understanding of cloud computing services
  • Fluency in English communication (both written and verbal)

Preferred skills

  • Good collaboration and interpersonal skills
  • Experience in designing scalable REST web services
  • Experience with Big Data environments, statistics, networking, and storage management

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How to become an Elasticsearch developer ?

Elasticsearch developers are among the freed professionals in the IT market today, and the competition for top jobs remains fierce. Elasticsearch is the most widely used and popular enterprise-level search engine and it’s growing gradually among tech leaders and startups. In terms of development, it is Java-based and equipped with various features to make setup easy.

Elasticsearch developers are generally concerned with data-based components, holding a large amount of data in a single place, and support for developers in web applications. Of course, you can create different elements using other enterprise search engines, but Elasticsearch is often chosen for this and there are reasons.

Given the increasing popularity of Elasticsearch and the increasing market demand for an Elasticsearch developer, one might wonder how to become an Elasticsearch developer. In this section, we will guide you through the structured approach, professional knowledge, and skills required to become an Elasticsearch developer.

What is the scope of Elasticsearch development?

Elasticsearch started as a technology that was very focused on text search and facilitated that functionality. However, Elastic is beginning to look beyond the search to build an ecosystem that has many different directions for Elasticsearch and how companies can use this product when it matures. Elasticsearch already has many product maturity features. The growth in the user base has started to match, as many of the users who needed it for text search already knew about it and are using it. The product has healthy competition in the market and is different from these solutions. Elasticsearch also has an active developer and third-party support community. Many managed database service providers offer Elasticsearch hosted databases and other support solutions to help organizations get the most out of their deployments.

Elasticsearch was voted the most popular enterprise-level search engine and has outperformed Apache Solr. It is open-source, broadly distributable, readily scalable, and widely used by companies like Netflix, Udemy, Dell, Shopify, Uber, and many more. There are many well-established companies, industry-leading tech giants, and growing startups using Elasticsearch that indicate a bright development future and a vast scope of opportunities.

What are the roles and responsibilities of an Elasticsearch developer?

The role of an Elasticsearch developer can include a variety of tasks. You may be asked to build the data lake structure, create tools as needed to get the job done, monitor clusters, or create new services. An Elasticsearch developer often works closely with the data collection and analysis team to create useful solutions and provide valuable information. An Elasticsearch developer is responsible for data, security, implementation, and debugging development projects, usually on the server-side (or backend). But they can also support organizations with their technological framework.

Elasticsearch developers often work on the data side of projects, either building data lakes or ingesting new data. They are typically responsible for developing effective enterprise search tools while working with development and design teams to meet user needs. They also support front-end developers by integrating their work with the databases.

How to become an Elasticsearch developer?

Becoming an Elasticsearch developer is a growing demand and preference of most tech professionals these days. Becoming an Elasticsearch developer is not as difficult as it sounds. You can become an Elasticsearch developer by taking a degree/diploma in computer science along with a good command over Elasticsearch, Lucene, KQL, and Index life cycle development. Applying with a well-drafted remote Elasticsearch developer resume should also help to increase the chances of getting hired.

Elasticsearch developers can choose multiple roles based on necessity and job description. You will use Elasticsearch to develop a data lake, Elastic stack, and cybersecurity. You’ll also take responsibility for scaling clusters, creating pipelines, ingesting new data, and more. Therefore, an Elasticsearch developer can play multiple vital roles while working for an organization.

Now, let's look at the skills and methods you'll need to master to become a successful Elasticsearch developer.

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Skills required to become an Elasticsearch developer

The first step is to start learning the important skills that can get you high-paying Elasticsearch developer jobs. Let’s have a look at what you need to know to become an Elasticsearch developer!

1. Elasticsearch index templates

An index template is a way of telling Elasticsearch how to configure an index when it is created. For data flows, the index template configures the backup indexes for the flow when it is created. Templates are configured before the index is created. When an index is created either manually or by indexing a document, the template settings are used as the basis for creating the index. To get a remote Elasticsearch developer job, you must need fluency in this skill.

2. Index life cycle management

One of the most important skills to get a remote Elasticsearch job is to learn Index lifecycle management. It is a feature that can be used to automate the creation, management, and deletion of an Elasticsearch index. It is very useful to be able to automate the creation of a new index when the index reaches the optimal size of 50 GB per shard. If you configure a time-based index with one index per day or one index per month, index chunks of an optimal size will likely be created.

3. Expertise in Lucene

Elasticsearch is based on Lucene. So, it is obvious that a developer must be fluent with this framework to start a career as an Elasticsearch developer. It is an open-source Java library used as a search engine. Elasticsearch turns Lucene into a distributed search engine for scale-out. It also offers other features like thread pool, queues, node/cluster monitoring API, data monitoring API, cluster management, etc. In short, Elasticsearch extends Lucene and also offers additional features.

4. Data science

Knowledge of data science is also vital when you are handling a large amount of data while working on Elasticsearch. Once you are qualified to capture, store, process, and predict information from your data, you will have no trouble getting your stakeholders a clear picture of your observations with the accompanying outliners.

5. Elasticsearch cluster

When you start an Elasticsearch instance, you start a node. An Elasticsearch cluster is a group of nodes with the same attribute. When nodes join or leave a cluster, the cluster automatically reorganizes itself to distribute data evenly among the available nodes; you must be able to use and start these instances to get a good grasp on Elasticsearch clusters.

6. Troubleshooting skills

Elasticsearch users also often encounter problems as a result of the standard parser removing stopwords for words like, is, in, which, and so on and thus it needs regular troubleshooting to fix those problems. This can be especially frustrating when, for example, you are indexing codes. Elasticsearch generally does a good job of guessing non-string value types, but it may not know the exact treatment you need for your text.

7. Networking

Elasticsearch uses network addresses for two different purposes known as binding and publishing. Most nodes use the same address for everything, but more complicated configurations may require different addresses to be configured for different purposes. When an application like Elasticsearch wants to receive network communications, it must tell the operating system the direction or directions from which it should receive traffic. This is known as binding to these addresses and an Elasticsearch developer has to work on these network bindings. That’s why a strong understanding of networking is required to become an Elasticsearch developer.

8. Analytical skills

Not just Elasticsearch, but any developer working with any framework or tool must have strong analytical skills with strong experience and a good understanding of the algorithms that drive things.

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How to get remote Elasticsearch developer jobs?

You must develop a sound job-search strategy while getting as much real-world experience as feasible. Before you start looking for jobs, think about what you're looking for and how you'll utilize that information to narrow down your search. It's all about getting hands-on and putting your talents to work when it comes to convincing companies that you're job-ready. As a result, it's critical to continue learning and growing. The more projects you work on, whether open-source, volunteer, or freelancing, the more you'll have to discuss in an interview.

Turing has the best remote Elasticsearch developer jobs that will suit your career as an engineer. Grow quickly by working on challenging technical and business problems using the latest technology. Join a network of the world's best developers and land long-term full-time jobs for remote developers with better compensation and career development.

Why become an Elasticsearch developer at Turing?

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Join a worldwide community of elite software developers.

Once you join Turing, you’ll never have to apply for another job.
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Turing's commitments are long-term and full-time. As one project draws to a close, our team gets to work identifying the next one for you in a matter of weeks.

Work from the comfort of your home
Work from the comfort of your home

Turing allows you to work according to your convenience. We have flexible working hours and you can work for top US firms from the comfort of your home.

Great compensation
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Working with top US corporations, Turing developers make more than the standard market pay in most nations.

How much does Turing pay their Elasticsearch developers?

At Turing, Elasticsearch developers can work according to their own decided rate. However, Turing recommends/suggests you a salary where we know we can find you a stable and profitable long-term opportunity. Our recommendations are based on our evaluation of market conditions, individual skills, and the demand we see from our clients.

Frequently Asked Questions

Elasticsearch is one of the most scalable and open-source dully text search and analytics engines in use today. It enables storing, searching, and analyzing large volumes of data in almost real-time.

We are a Palo Alto-based 'deep' jobs platform allowing talented software developers to work with top US firms from the comfort of their homes. We are led by Stanford alumni and successful A.I. entrepreneurs Jonathan Siddharth and Vijay Krishnan.

After uploading your resume, you will have to go through the three tests -- seniority assessment, tech stack test, and live coding challenge. Once you clear these tests, you are eligible to apply to a wide range of jobs available based on your skills.

If you’re an Elasticsearch developer you can apply for a number of different positions such as Elasticsearch engineer, Elasticseach developer, Infrastructure Tech Analyst and more.

We, at Turing, hire remote developers for over 100 skills like React/Node, Python, Angular, Swift, React Native, Android, Java, Rails, Golang, PHP, Vue, among several others. We also hire engineers based on tech roles and seniority.

Communication is crucial for success while working with American clients. We prefer candidates with a B1 level of English i.e. those who have the necessary fluency to communicate without effort with our clients and native speakers.

Elasticsearch developers or engineers are entrusted to build complete search solutions including - installing, configuring, managing, indexing Elasticsearch clusters, and analyzing indexed data.

It is the combination of our core business model and values that makes us different from others. We provide full-time, long-term projects to remote developers whereas most of our competitors offer more freelance jobs.

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