BACKEND ENGINEER
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Summary
Backend engineer in Singapore who designs, builds, and scales backend services and data pipelines powering search indexing. Day-to-day work involves owning performance and reliability of distributed systems (latency, freshness, indexing throughput), debugging production issues, and driving migrations off legacy components, using languages like C++, Java, Go, Rust, or Python.
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