Senior Principal Software Engineer - Search Platform

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with partner teams and internal customers to help define technical direction and OKRs for the Search Platform team.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration and deliver a world-class end-to-end search experience.

• Own key OKRs and end-to-end outcomes of critical projects in a microservices environment

• Champion best practices and innovative techniques for scalability, reliability, and performance optimizations.

• Own engineering and operational excellence for the health of our systems and processes. Proactively drive opportunities for continuous improvements and own key operational metrics.

• Continually drive developer productivity initiatives to ensure that we unleash the potential of our own team.

• Help hire and mentor engineers to build an open, innovative and operationally responsible culture.

On your first day, we’ll expect you to have

• Strong technical expertise and 12+ years experience in designing/building enterprise grade solutions using microservices. Fluency in at least one modern object-oriented programming language (preferably Java)

• Deep knowledge and experience building large-scale, highly available distributed systems and search technologies (e.g. Lucene, Solr, OpenSearch, Vector dbs)

• Experience building and operating large scale distributed systems using cloud technologies from AWS/Azure/GCP

• Focus on business outcomes and the 80/20 rule; very high bar for output quality, but recognize the business benefit of 'ship small, ship fast and iterate’ vs ‘building for perfection’

• Passion for engineering rigor and operational excellence (design principles and patterns, unit testing, best practices for security and privacy, CI/CD etc). You will be a role model for operational responsibility and data-driven engineering rigor.

• Excellent collaboration, communication and leadership skills. Ability to get engineers to follow their lead as well as mentor/coach

• High level of energy and a desire to innovate in a large, fast-paced organization; ability to balance multiple projects under pressure

If you’ve got these skills, even better

• Experience with search relevance models and ML platforms

• Significant experience in cell based architecture

• Data analysis using Spark/Databricks

Let’s build universal Search for all teams around the world together!