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Swiftype/Elastic | Software Engineer & Technical Writer | REMOTE

Swiftype (now part of Elastic) builds a search platform that powers hundreds of millions of queries a month. We are a small team of generalist software developers and we are looking to grow our team in order to build new products and maintain our existing search platform.

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 real time 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. The Elastic family unites employees across 30+ countries into one coherent team, while the broader community spans across over 100 countries.

Check out https://swiftype.com/jobs for more information.

Swiftype | Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Relocation Assistance

Swiftype builds a search platform that powers hundreds of millions of queries a month. We are a small team of generalist software developers and we are looking to grow our team in order to build new products and maintain our existing search platform. Come join us in our newly expanded office!

Email us at jobs+hn@swiftype.com or check out https://swiftype.com/jobs for more information.

Swiftype | Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Relocation Assistance

Swiftype builds a search platform that powers hundreds of millions of queries a month. We are a small team of generalist software developers and we are looking to grow our team in order to build new products and maintain our existing search platform. Come join us in our newly expanded office!

Email us at jobs+hn@swiftype.com or check out https://swiftype.com/jobs for more information.

Swiftype | Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Relocation Assistance

Swiftype builds a search platform that powers hundreds of millions of queries a month. We are a small team of generalist software developers and we are looking to grow our team in order to build new products and maintain our existing search platform. Come join us in our newly expanded office!

Email us at jobs+hn@swiftype.com or check out https://swiftype.com/jobs for more information.

Swiftype | Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Relocation Assistance

Swiftype builds a search platform that powers hundreds of millions of queries a month. We are a small team of generalist software developers and we are looking to grow our team in order to build new products and maintain our existing search platform. Come join us in our newly expanded office!

Email us at jobs+hn@swiftype.com or check out https://swiftype.com/jobs for more information.

Swiftype | Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Relocation Assistance

Swiftype builds a search platform that powers hundreds of millions of queries a month. We are a small team of generalist software developers and we are looking to grow our team in order to build new products and maintain our existing search platform. Come join us in our newly expanded office!

Email us at jobs+hn@swiftype.com or check out https://swiftype.com/jobs for more information.

Swiftype | Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Relocation Assistance

Swiftype builds a search platform that powers hundreds of millions of queries a month. We are a small team of generalist software developers and we are looking to grow our team in order to build new products and maintain our existing search platform. Come join us in our newly expanded office!

Email us at jobs+hn@swiftype.com or check out https://swiftype.com/jobs for more information.

Swiftype | Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Relocation Assistance

Swiftype builds a search platform that powers hundreds of millions of queries a month. We are a small team of generalist software developers and we are looking to grow our team in order to build new products and maintain our existing search platform. Come join us in our newly expanded office!

Email us at jobs+hn@swiftype.com or check out https://swiftype.com/jobs for more information.

Swiftype - San Francisco, CA - ONSITE (relocation assistance)

The product you would help build powers the search experience on thousands of websites and applications. We're a product/engineering focused company and we're fortunate enough to be working at a massive scale. Everything is growing quickly and we need more generalist engineers to join the team.

Here is the view from our office: https://instagram.fsnc1-3.fna.fbcdn.net/t51.2885-15/e15/1515...

Some Open Source releases from our team:

- https://swiftype.com/blog/introducing-meta-events.html

- https://swiftype.com/blog/web-server-uid.html

- https://swiftype.com/blog/objectid-columns.html

If that sounds interesting, email us at jobs+hn@swiftype.com or check out https://swiftype.com/jobs for more information.

Swiftype - San Francisco, CA (relocation assistance)

The product you would help build powers the search experience on hundreds of thousands of websites. We're a product/engineering focused company and we're fortunate enough to be working at a massive scale. Everything is growing quickly and we need more generalist engineers to join the team.

Some recent Open Source releases from our team:

- https://swiftype.com/blog/introducing-meta-events.html

- https://swiftype.com/blog/web-server-uid.html

- https://swiftype.com/blog/objectid-columns.html

If that sounds interesting, email us at jobs+hn@swiftype.com or check out https://swiftype.com/jobs for more information.

We don't currently hire remotely, but we do offer relocation assistance. Plenty of bonus points for IR backgrounds, too!

Swiftype - San Francisco, CA (relocation assistance)

The product you would help build powers the search experience on hundreds of thousands of websites. We're a product/engineering focused company and we're fortunate enough to be working at a massive scale. Everything is growing quickly and we need more generalist engineers to join the team.

Here is the view from our office: http://distilleryimage4.ak.instagram.com/e7bf92ee681111e38d9...

Some recent Open Source releases from our team:

- https://swiftype.com/blog/introducing-meta-events.html

- https://swiftype.com/blog/web-server-uid.html

- https://swiftype.com/blog/objectid-columns.html

If that sounds interesting, email us at jobs+hn@swiftype.com or check out https://swiftype.com/jobs for more information.

Assuming you are talking about Live Analytics in particular:

One of the most common reasons this was requested was for events and product/feature launches. Some of our customers would launch a new product only to find out a day or two later that users were using different terminology or looking in the wrong places when searching for documentation or support. We are seeing content teams be able to adjust their copy in real time based on the search activity, which is pretty powerful.

There is also a lot of value in seeing a user's search activity while they are still on your website. We use Olark, so if someone isn't engaging with results/etc, we can guess at his/her intent and send them a message asking if they need help.

The Live Analytics stuff has been a big hit so far. Even internally we have had a hard time not staring at it! This is what is looks like with activity: http://s.swiftypecdn.com/assets/email/live_analytics.gif

If I understand what you're suggesting correctly, we already do this. Any analytics we expose in the dashboard are also being leveraged internally as signals for search relevance. Effectively, any search interaction can be used to improve the relevance of subsequent searches.

Glad to hear it. As Luke noted, we've been using d3 more and more, particularly for this release. We've all been really please with its flexibility.

As we gradually migrate data from MongoDB to MySQL, this code has been hugely helpful. It is making the transition as smooth and efficient as possible. I hope others can get some value out of the gem as well.

This is definitely true. We frequently talk about the real challenge in all of this being exposing the power that is under the hood while still keeping people productive and not letting them shoot themselves in the foot (while changing results).

Both – interaction with the search results and general site usage data are important factors.

There are many factors that make high quality search difficult, but as an example, take relevance that evolves over time. Static text-based rankings are a fine start, but improving search relevance continuously based on usage takes a lot of data. Even when you have the data, leveraging it requires careful tuning to prevent issues like over-training. This is just one of the things we do for people out of the box.

We still allow this. You are just more limited in how frequently you can do an on-demand crawl with the free plan versus a paid plan.

You can also ping our API to update a specific URL immediately, which is really helpful is cases like this.

I think that "double the price per bandwidth" figure is way off – where did you get that? imgix pricing looks to be about a 30% premium over the US CloudFront pricing, and much less than that internationally (imgix doesn't appear to distinguish).

I don't think littleutils does much more than optimize images, which is pretty different from: http://www.imgix.com/docs/urlapi

Resizing or optimizing images, in isolation, is not a hard problem. I've solved subsets of this problem a handful of times before, and I could do it again, but I gladly pay for imgix. The time and headaches saved are easily worth it. The next time I have to rely on ImageMagick will be too soon.

Mike McCandless gives a good overview here: http://blog.mikemccandless.com/2012/07/lucene-400-alpha-at-l...

He has some other posts on there that do a deeper dive as well.

I think Cloud Code is a good example of why this is not the case. The more flexibility and customization they allow in the platform, the fewer long tail features they need to implement because people will be able to do it themselves.

http://downscout.com/twitter.com if anyone wants to track it.

Definitely. Swiftype currently supports geo-based searching/filtering, but it appears we haven't pushed out the docs for it yet. They will be up soon!

Had a couple of hiccups due to load spikes in engine creation. Working on a fix to prevent this in the future.

We do support multiple domains and even diverse types of sources (crawl and API in a single engine). Unfortunately we don't have it exposed in the interface just yet! We will get that turned on in the next day or so.

Spot on. This is one of the real advantages to leverage in a site search system. We have only scratched the surface of what's possible, but there is a lot more to this coming soon.

Also, not sure if you caught this on the site yet, but we do have support for custom metadata: http://swiftype.com/documentation/meta_tags