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Sr. Software Engineer, Search Infrastructure
- Palo Alto
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- Level
- Senior
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Posted
What you'll do
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SR. SOFTWARE ENGINEER, SEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE
As a senior backend engineer, you’ll design and build scalable, high-performance systems that power subscriptions infrastructure, new monetized products, user growth, and creator monetization. You’ll work on mission-critical infrastructure that processes millions of transactions, optimizes user acquisition and retention, and enables creators to earn a living through their content. This is a unique opportunity to make a large-scale revenue impact while creating products that users and businesses love.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- 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 reliability requirements
- 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
Requirements
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or experience with storage or hardware architecture
- Experience with high performance Rust, C++ or JVM-based languages
- Experience with operating system internals, filesystems, networking, or database storage engines
PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Hands-on experience with search and indexing technologies (Elasticsearch, Lucene, or similar) and an understanding of how they work and why
- Obsessed performance, reliability, scalability and quality
- Ability to take full ownership of problems and learn whatever is needed to solve them
- Comfortable moving quickly in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities and tight deadlines
- Contributions to open-source search or infrastructure projects
Skills
Stack
- C++
- Rust
Working languages
English
Salary & benefits
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
$150,000 - $400,000 USD
Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at SpaceXSI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.
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