Software Engineer - Search Infrastructure
$150k - $400k • Palo Alto, CA
Posted 5d ago
About the job
As a backend engineer, you will design and build scalable, high-performance systems that power subscriptions infrastructure, new monetized products, user growth, and creator monetization. You will work on mission-critical infrastructure that processes millions of transactions, optimizes user acquisition and retention, and enables creators to earn a living through their content. This is a unique opportunity to make a large-scale revenue impact while creating products that users and businesses love.
Responsibilities
- Design and build large-scale search infrastructure (real-time indexing, serving, and data pipelines) handling massive write and query loads with strict latency and reliability requirements.
- Deeply understand search internals (indexing, query execution, and relevance) and help shape the technical direction of core search infrastructure.
- Operate production services end-to-end, including monitoring, debugging, incident response, and performance optimization.
- Lead and drive incident responses and recovery with peers, and contribute to incident postmortems.
Requirements
- 5+ years developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems, or experience with storage or hardware architecture.
- Proficiency in high-performance Rust, C++, or JVM-based languages.
- Hands-on experience with search and indexing technologies (Elasticsearch, Lucene, or similar) and understanding of their workings.
- Experience with operating system internals, filesystems, networking, or database storage engines.
- Obsession with performance, reliability, scalability, and quality.
- Ability to take full ownership of problems and learn what is needed to solve them.
- Comfortable moving quickly in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities and tight deadlines.
Benefits
- Equity
- Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
- Access to a 401(k) retirement plan
- Short & long-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Various other discounts and perks