The posting
Role -
● Design, build, and scale backendservices and data pipelines that power search indexing
● Own performance, capacity, andreliability for your components — including latency, freshness, and indexingthroughput
● Debug and resolve complexproduction issues across distributed systems
● Partner with search ranking,serving, and product teams to evolve the indexing stack toward new requirements
● Raise the technical bar throughdesign reviews, code reviews, and mentorship of other engineers
● Drive technical direction for yourarea, including migrations off legacy components
Minimum qualifications
-5+ years of professional softwareengineering experience, with a focus on backend or distributed systems
● Strong programming skills in oneor more of C++, Java, Go, Rust, or Python
● Hands-on experience building andoperating large-scale distributed systems in production
● Experience diagnosing and fixingperformance, scalability, and reliability problems
● Demonstrated ability to ownambiguous, multi-quarter technical problems end to end
Preferred qualifications
● Direct experience with searchinfrastructure: inverted indexes, indexing pipelines, retrieval, or queryserving
● Experience with stream processingand large-scale data systems
● Experience with storage systems,caching layers, or sharding and replication strategies
● Track record of migrating orre-platforming production systems with no user-visible disruption



