The posting
Role -
● Design, build, and scale backend services and data pipelines that power search indexing
● Own performance, capacity, and reliability for your components — including latency, freshness, and indexing throughput
● Debug and resolve complex production issues across distributed systems
● Partner with search ranking, serving, and product teams to evolve the indexing stack toward new requirements
● Raise the technical bar through design reviews, code reviews, and mentorship of other engineers
● Drive technical direction for your area, including migrations off legacy components
Minimum qualifications
-5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a focus on backend or distributed systems
● Strong programming skills in one or more of C++, Java, Go, Rust, or Python
● Hands-on experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production
● Experience diagnosing and fixing performance, scalability, and reliability problems
● Demonstrated ability to own ambiguous, 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



