Kcura

Senior Software Engineer

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20 hours ago
Kraków, PolandSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, operate, and scale distributed search platform capabilities in a cloud environment.
  • Run and improve production systems supporting high-volume, mission-critical customer workflows.
  • Develop maintainable software and resolve complex production defects and system issues.
  • Improve observability, automation, capacity planning, operational readiness, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.
  • Participate in production support, on-call responsibilities, incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.
  • Collaborate with engineering, SRE, product, architecture, and cross-functional partners on the search platform roadmap.
  • Define and promote engineering standards and contribute to the long-term architecture of the search service.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5+ years of professional experience developing commercial-grade software systems or infrastructure platforms.
  • Experience building, operating, or scaling distributed systems in production.
  • Experience with mission-critical systems, reliability, availability, operational readiness, production support, or on-call operations.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to diagnose complex system behavior using operational data.
  • Experience designing or developing scalable solutions in a major public cloud environment.
  • Hands-on programming experience in a modern backend language.
  • Ability to collaborate across engineering, SRE, product, and architecture teams.
  • Fluent verbal and written communication skills in English.
  • Preferred qualifications include experience with petabyte-scale search, indexing, retrieval, or vector infrastructure; Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Lance, or TurboPuffer; Kubernetes and cloud-native operations; Azure; Pulumi or Terraform; deployment automation; Grafana, Prometheus, or New Relic; Linux production environments; and large-scale infrastructure optimization.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement.
  • Competitive base salary, annual performance bonus, long-term incentives, benefits, DTO, parental leave, and equity program.
  • Opportunities to work on distributed cloud-native systems processing large volumes of data.
  • Growth and ownership across cloud and distributed environments in a collaborative and inclusive culture.

Tech Stack

AzureElasticsearchGrafanaKubernetesLinuxPrometheusTerraform

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