Senior Software Engineer - Search

1 hour, 41 minutes ago
Full-time
Senior
Software Development
Alphasense

Alphasense

Alphasense is a global leader in providing high-quality gas sensors and air quality monitors to industrial OEMs. With over 25 years of experience, the company offers a wide range of innovative gas sensor technologies for various applications, including...

Industrial Conglomerates
51-250
Founded 1996

Description

  • Architect and optimize distributed infrastructure that handles billions of documents and hundreds of queries per second.
  • Lead the migration from legacy systems to modern architecture while maintaining zero downtime.
  • Establish monitoring, testing, and deployment practices that improve engineering reliability and catch issues early.
  • Profile, diagnose, and tune performance across infrastructure and application layers.
  • Balance cost and performance when optimizing system behavior and throughput.
  • Own a critical search platform that directly affects how customers discover insights.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience building and operating distributed systems in production.
  • Experience with large-scale data platforms or high-throughput systems.
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, including sharding, replication, consistency, and partition tolerance.
  • Strong performance optimization skills, including profiling, diagnosing, and fixing bottlenecks across the stack.
  • Experience with data pipeline architecture, real-time processing, or database internals.
  • Experience building observable systems with comprehensive monitoring and alerting.
  • Preferred experience with search platforms such as Vespa, Elasticsearch, or Solr, or similar large-scale data systems.
  • Preferred experience with Kubernetes, CRDs, and infrastructure as code.
  • Preferred background in information retrieval, ranking systems, or recommendation engines.
  • Preferred familiarity with hybrid search approaches, including lexical and vector search.
  • Preferred experience with JVM-based systems and tuning.
  • Preferred knowledge of modern engineering practices from high-growth companies.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $169,000 to $232,000 USD.
  • Potential equity compensation.
  • Generous benefits program.
  • Equal-opportunity employer committed to an inclusive and respectful work environment.
  • Reasonable accommodation for qualified employees with protected disabilities, as required by law.

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