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Software Engineer - Search Infrastructure

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about 3 hours ago
Palo Alto, CA, USASenior
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$150k - $400k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and build large scale search infrastructure with strict latency and reliability requirements.
  • Deep dive into search internals to shape the technical direction of core search infrastructure.
  • Operate production services end to end, including monitoring and performance optimization.
  • Lead incident responses and contribute to postmortems to maintain high standards.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in developing large-scale infrastructure or distributed systems.
  • Proficient in high performance Rust, C++, or JVM-based languages.
  • Hands-on experience with search and indexing technologies like Elasticsearch or Lucene.
  • Understanding of operating system internals, filesystems, networking, or database storage engines.
  • Strong focus on performance, reliability, scalability, and quality.
  • Ability to take ownership of problems and adapt quickly in a fast-paced environment.

Benefits

  • Equity in the company.
  • Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage.
  • Access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
  • Short & long-term disability insurance and life insurance.
  • Various discounts and perks.

Tech Stack

C++ElasticsearchRust

Categories

BackendData Engineering