Server Engineer - AI-Powered Search Team
Core
Design, build, and operate core search components (indexing pipelines, retrieval algorithms, ranking systems, vector/hybrid search) that run reliably at large scale for Wix's AI-powered search platform.
Role type
Senior Server Engineer (AI Search Infrastructure)
Builds
High-performance, distributed search infrastructure serving hundreds of millions of sites and users
Domain
Search systems, AI/ML, Cloud-native infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Systems design, backend development (Java, Scala, Python), distributed systems, cloud infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm), algorithms and data structures, Linux internals, performance tuning
Preferred skills
Search systems and databases, vector search/ANN, embeddings, machine-learned model inference, LLM-based systems, monitoring and logging tools (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK)
Technologies
AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Java, Scala, Python, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK
Responsibilities
Develop and operate Wix's AI-powered search infrastructure; Design streaming and batch data-processing systems for search index construction; Integrate machine-learned models and LLMs into the serving path; Push limits of hardware and Linux performance through low-level optimization
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
