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Software Engineer - Search Infrastructure

Palo Alto, CA💼 Full-time💰 $150,000–$150,000🗓 2026-08-06 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design and build scalable, high-performance search infrastructure (real-time indexing, serving, and data pipelines) handling massive write and query loads with strict latency and reliability requirements.

Role type

Senior IC backend engineer (search infrastructure)

Builds

Large-scale search infrastructure, real-time indexing, serving, and data pipelines

Domain

Search technology, distributed systems, infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Rust, C++, JVM-based languages, search and indexing technologies (Elasticsearch, Lucene), operating system internals, filesystems, networking, database storage engines

Preferred skills

Open-source search or infrastructure contributions

Responsibilities

Design and build large scale search infrastructure, go deep into search internals and shape technical direction, operate production services end to end, lead and drive incident responses and recovery

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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