Senior Engineer, Software

<h3>Accountabilities:</h3><li>Architect, build, and optimize distributed systems capable of managing billions of documents and supporting high query volumes with consistently low latency.</li><li>Lead the evolution of the search platform by migrating legacy systems to modern architectures while maintaining service continuity and improving performance.</li><li>Establish robust engineering practices, including comprehensive monitoring, automated testing, deployment automation, and proactive incident prevention.</li><li>Profile, diagnose, and resolve performance bottlenecks across infrastructure, databases, data pipelines, and application layers.</li><li>Design and improve data processing architectures that support real-time workloads, efficient information retrieval, and reliable data access.</li><li>Strengthen system observability through effective monitoring, alerting, and reliability metrics to identify and address potential issues before they affect customers.</li><li>Contribute to the development of advanced search capabilities, including hybrid lexical and vector search approaches.</li><li>Collaborate with engineers across the team, share technical expertise, and promote a culture of continuous improvement, operational excellence, and knowledge sharing.</li><li>Drive measurable improvements in platform scalability, latency, reliability, and infrastructure efficiency throughout the first year and beyond.</li><h2>Requirements:</h2><li>At least five years of experience building, deploying, and operating distributed systems in production environments.</li><li>Proven experience with large-scale data platforms, high-throughput systems, or infrastructure supporting demanding workloads.</li><li>Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, including sharding, replication, consistency models, and partition tolerance.</li><li>Demonstrated ability to analyze and optimize performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement effective solutions across the technology stack.</li><li>Experience designing data pipelines, real-time processing systems, or database internals and architectures.</li><li>Proficiency in building observable, reliable systems with comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and diagnostic capabilities.</li><li>Strong problem-solving skills, sound architectural judgment, and the ability to take ownership of complex technical challenges.</li><li>Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a willingness to share knowledge, support colleagues, and contribute to engineering excellence.</li><li>Familiarity with search platforms such as Vespa, Elasticsearch, or Solr, or experience working with comparable large-scale data systems, is a plus.</li><li>Experience with Kubernetes, Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs), and infrastructure as code is advantageous.</li><li>Knowledge of information retrieval, ranking algorithms, recommendation engines, or hybrid search combining lexical and vector approaches is desirable.</li><li>Familiarity with JVM-based systems and performance tuning, as well as modern engineering practices in high-growth technology environments, is beneficial.</li><h2>Benefits:</h2><li>The opportunity to own and influence a mission-critical search platform serving enterprise customers at significant scale.</li><li>Exposure to modern distributed systems, AI-driven market intelligence, and advanced information retrieval technologies.</li><li>Meaningful technical challenges involving billions of documents, high-throughput workloads, low-latency processing, and platform modernization.</li><li>A collaborative environment with experienced engineers who value learning, knowledge sharing, and continuous technical development.</li><li>The opportunity to drive architectural decisions, improve engineering standards, and make a measurable impact on product reliability and customer experience.</li><li>The chance to contribute to an innovative, internationally distributed technology organization serving thousands of enterprise customers.</li><li>A commitment to equal employment opportunities, an inclusive working environment, and reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals in accordance with applicable laws.</li>