Kcura

Senior Software Engineer

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20 hours ago
Kraków, PolandSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate scalable search platform capabilities in a cloud environment.
  • Run and improve production systems supporting high-volume, mission-critical customer workflows.
  • Develop high-quality, maintainable backend software using sound engineering practices.
  • Troubleshoot production issues, resolve defects, and support customer-impacting incidents.
  • Improve observability, automation, capacity planning, reliability, and operational readiness.
  • Participate in production support, incident response, and on-call responsibilities.
  • Collaborate with engineering, SRE, product, and architecture partners on the search platform roadmap.
  • Implement platform optimizations and contribute to engineering standards and long-term architecture.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least 5 years of professional experience developing commercial-grade software systems or infrastructure platforms.
  • Experience building, operating, or scaling distributed systems in production.
  • Experience with reliability, availability, operational readiness, incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.
  • 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.
  • Preferred experience includes petabyte-scale search, indexing, retrieval or vector infrastructure; Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Lance, TurboPuffer, or comparable technologies; Kubernetes; Azure; Pulumi or Terraform; deployment automation; Grafana, Prometheus, or New Relic; and Linux production environments.
  • Preferred experience improving performance, reliability, cost efficiency, or operational toil in large-scale infrastructure systems.

Benefits

  • Hybrid or remote work flexibility.
  • Competitive base salary, annual performance bonus, long-term incentives, equity program, benefits, discretionary time off, and parental leave.
  • Opportunity to work on distributed cloud-native systems supporting high-stakes legal workflows.
  • Collaborative and inclusive environment with knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.

Tech Stack

AzureElasticsearchGrafanaKubernetesLinuxPrometheusTerraform

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