Member of Technical Staff (Search Engine Developer, Search Core)

over 1 year ago

Berlin, Germany or London, United KingdomMid Level

H1B Sponsor

Responsibilities

Design and build core search engine components, including indexing pipelines, retrieval algorithms, and ranking systems, at the scale of billions of pages.
Develop streaming and batch data processing systems for search index construction in a high-load environment.
Improve hardware performance through low-level optimizations and systems-level tuning.
Solve challenges involving multithreading, concurrency, and system-level optimization.
Own the architecture, design, implementation, deployment, operation, and scaling of foundational production systems.

At least 3 years of hands-on systems programming experience with Rust, C++, C, or a similar language.
Experience owning the full project lifecycle, including building, deploying, operating, and scaling systems in production.
Knowledge of Python or other scripting languages.
Strong ability to write clean, efficient, and scalable systems-level code.
Strong knowledge of algorithms and data structures.
Deep understanding of multithreading, including its approaches, challenges, and trade-offs.
Experience building high-load, distributed, and hardware-adjacent services.
Solid understanding of Linux internals, including syscalls, networking, the memory model, and kernel tuning.
Familiarity with low-level optimization techniques such as memory management, cache efficiency, SIMD, and profiling.
Preferred: experience developing core components of search engines, databases, or information retrieval systems.
Preferred: understanding of indexing, query parsing, ranking, and relevance.
Preferred: experience with trading systems or other latency-sensitive real-time systems.
Preferred: familiarity with cloud services, Kubernetes, and AWS infrastructure.

201-500 employees

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