Software Engineering PMTS - Search & Personalization
InformaticaBase Salary
$197k - $345k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture and delivery of GenAI search capabilities such as AI overviews, query suggestions, and natural-language query understanding.
- Design multi-turn agentic search with conversational discovery, recommendations, comparisons, and contextual follow-up.
- Build personalization and contextual discovery services using behavioral and preference-based ranking signals.
- Own scalable, low-latency indexing pipelines for agents, MCP tools and resources, skills, subagents, and A2A listings.
- Define the Northstar architecture and long-term technical roadmap for the Search & Personalization domain.
- Drive migration of search services from Heroku to Falcon and support broader platform modernization.
- Own observability, telemetry, SLOs and SLIs, latency budgets, relevance metrics, safe change practices, availability targets, and security risk governance.
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and sponsorship to engineers while collaborating with Product, Platform Services, Marketing and Growth, and Embedded Exchanges teams.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with technical leadership on enterprise-scale search, recommendation, or personalization systems.
- Demonstrated ability to define and execute long-term technical vision and architectural roadmaps for complex search or ML-infused platform domains.
- Deep expertise in search engine internals, including indexing pipelines, ranking, query understanding, and relevance tuning.
- Experience building and operating search infrastructure at scale using Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Solr, or equivalent technologies.
- Backend development experience with Node.js, Java, or equivalent technologies for high-throughput search services.
- Experience designing recommendation or personalization systems using collaborative filtering, content-based ranking, behavioral signals, or equivalent approaches.
- Hands-on experience integrating LLMs or GenAI into search products, including AI-generated summaries, query expansion, semantic search, or conversational retrieval.
- Experience with real-time or near-real-time data pipelines for indexing and signal ingestion.
- Strong engineering excellence practices involving observability, telemetry, latency SLOs, CI/CD, service ownership, safe changes, and production reliability.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence engineering, product, and executive stakeholders.
- Preferred experience with multi-turn or conversational search, agentic systems, MCP tools/resources, A2A patterns, contextual discovery surfaces, marketplace or e-commerce search, personalization at scale, experimentation, behavioral analytics, platform migrations, security governance, and Salesforce Platform features.
- Proficiency in written and spoken English and a polyglot attitude.
Benefits
- Benefits include time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program.
- The role is eligible for base salary, with potential incentive compensation, equity, and benefits as applicable.
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About Informatica
Informatica (NYSE: INFA), a leader in AI-powered enterprise cloud data management, helps businesses unlock the full value of their data and AI. As data grows in complexity and volume, Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud™ delivers a complete, end-to-end platform with a suite of industry-leading, integrated solutions to connect, manage and unify data across any cloud, hybrid or multi-cloud environment. Powered by CLAIRE® AI, Informatica’s platform integrates natively with all major cloud providers, data warehouses and analytics tools— giving organizations the freedom of choice, avoiding vendor lock-in and delivering better ROI by enabling access to governed data, simplifying operations and scaling with confidence. Trusted by approximately 5,000 customers in nearly 100 countries—including over 80 of the Fortune 100—Informatica is the backbone of platform-agnostic, cloud data-driven transformation. Informatica. Where data and AI come to life.™ Contact: PR@informatica.com