Staff Backend Engineer - Search Features & APIs (SABR)
Core
Own the technical direction, architecture, performance, and reliability of high-traffic, low-latency Python services for product discovery (autocomplete, search, browse, recommendations) and public configuration APIs.
Role type
Staff Backend Engineer (Search & APIs)
Builds
High-availability request processing services, public APIs, and orchestration layers for e-commerce product discovery.
Domain
E-commerce, Search, Distributed Systems
Required skills
Python, high-traffic low-latency backend services, observability, public API design, scalable service-oriented architectures
Preferred skills
AWS, search/ranking/information retrieval, AI/LLM-facing infrastructure (MCP, agent tooling)
Responsibilities
Own technical direction of services (architecture, performance, reliability); Lead design of new systems and public APIs; Mentor mid and senior engineers; Partner with product and engineering teams; Take part in on-call and lead incident response
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with mentorship
