BACKEND ENGINEER

Your tasks

• 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

Requirements

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