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Staff Software Engineer, Search & Retrieval Infrastructure

2 weeks, 6 days ago
United States
Full-time
Lead
Software Engineer
Software Development
C++ Elasticsearch GCP Go Java Kafka Kubernetes Lucene Python Rust Solr
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Description

  • Lead the optimization and architectural evolution of the hybrid search stack, including lexical search and dense vector databases.
  • Design and implement data tiering strategies across hot, warm, and cold storage states.
  • Evolve distributed pipelines to run asynchronous, large-scale scans across petabytes of data.
  • Analyze bottlenecks and improve indexing, querying, and cloud infrastructure performance.
  • Reduce latency and cost-to-serve through system and infrastructure optimization.
  • Own the indexing and search ecosystem as a domain expert and technical leader.
  • Set the long-term technical vision for data storage and retrieval.
  • Guide engineering teams on data modeling and performance tuning best practices.
  • Ensure fault-tolerant and highly available operations during massive parallel ingest and concurrent querying.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience.
  • Proven Staff/Principal-level experience scaling highly distributed, high-throughput systems to petabyte-level data.
  • Deep production experience with Lucene-based search engines such as Elasticsearch or Solr.
  • Experience tuning and scaling modern vector indexing infrastructure.
  • Strong understanding of index internals, chunking strategies, and embedding retrieval optimization.
  • Experience designing cost-effective cold-storage scanning and hot-index architectures.
  • Extensive experience with distributed data pipelines and high-throughput event streaming tools such as Kafka or Kinesis.
  • Experience with distributed compute architectures handling billions of records.
  • Expert command of cloud primitives, preferably in GCP.
  • Experience with Kubernetes and infrastructure as code.
  • Expert-level proficiency in Go, Rust, Python, or Java/C++.

Benefits

  • Remote work in the United States.
  • Salary range of $190,000 to $230,000 USD.
  • Health insurance.
  • Equity.

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