BACKEND ENGINEER

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