Software Engineer - Search Infrastructure

Job summary

Responsibilities

As a backend engineer, you’ll design and build scalable, high-performance systems that power subscriptions infrastructure, new monetized products, user growth, and creator monetization.

• Design and build large scale search infrastructure (real-time indexing, serving, and data pipelines) that handles massive write and query loads with strict latency and…
• Go deep into search internals (indexing, query execution, and relevance) and help shape the technical direction of the core search infrastructure
• Operate production services end to end, including monitoring, debugging, incident response, and performance optimization
• Lead and drive incident responses and recovery with your peers. Review and contribute to incident postmortems and hold a high bar for the same

What they're looking for

• 5+ years developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or experience with storage or hardware architecture.
• Proficient in high performance Rust, C++ or JVM-based languages
• Hands-on experience with search and indexing technologies (Elasticsearch, Lucene, or similar) and an understanding of how they work and why
• Experience with operating system internals, filesystems, networking, or database storage engines
• Obsessed performance, reliability, scalability and quality

Tech stack

• Rust
• C++
• Elasticsearch