Search Engineer
Core
Maintain and evolve one of the largest search clusters in the Southern Hemisphere, powering Xero for 200,000+ daily active users with 50+ million searchable documents and 400TB of data.
Role type
Search Engineer (Infrastructure)
Builds
Search infrastructure and ingestion pipelines for the Horizon 2 platform rebuild
Domain
Enterprise SaaS, Search Infrastructure
Deliverable
infrastructure
Required skills
Search engineering, Software engineering fundamentals, System maintenance, Pipeline integration, Distributed team collaboration
Preferred skills
Growth mindset, Initiative, Ownership
Technologies
Search clusters, Ingestion pipelines
Responsibilities
Contribute to a four-year search platform modernisation project, Maintain search infrastructure at 99.9% uptime, Work on ingestion pipeline integration with the new platform, Collaborate on integrations with Mobile, Files, and AI-adjacent search capabilities
Seniority
Junior to Mid-level, hands-on IC
