Software Engineer (Search Infrastructure)

• As a backend engineer, you’ll design and build scalable, high-performance systems that power subscriptions infrastructure, new monetized products, user growth, and creator monetization
• You’ll 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
• Design and build large scale search infrastructure (real-time indexing, serving, and data pipelines) that handles massive write and query loads with strict latency and reliability requirements
• Go deep into search internals (indexing, query execution, and relevance) and help shape the technical direction of the 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 your peers. Review and contribute to incident postmortems and hold a high bar for the same

Benefits

• Health and wellness: Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, vision, and disability coverage
• Life and family: Life and AD&D insurance and fertility benefits to ensure our team’s well-being and peace of mind
• Flexible vacation: We work hard but avoid burn out. Take time off when you need it
• Visa sponsorship: We support international talent with visa sponsorship to join our team
• 401(k) plan: Retirement savings plan to secure your financial future

• Proficient in high performance Rust, C++ or JVM-based languages
• Obsessed performance, reliability, scalability and quality
• 5+ years developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or experience with storage or hardware architecture
• Experience with operating system internals, filesystems, networking, or database storage engines
• Hands-on experience with search and indexing technologies (Elasticsearch, Lucene, or similar) and an understanding of how they work and why
• Comfortable moving quickly in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities and tight deadlines
• Ability to take full ownership of problems and learn whatever is needed to solve them
• Contributions to open-source search or infrastructure projects