Senior Search Engineer - OpenSearch
Core
Designing and optimizing advanced search infrastructure and relevance techniques for massive enterprise datasets to help users find materials, customers, orders, and documents.
Role type
Senior IC search engineer (OpenSearch)
Builds
Production search platforms, indexing pipelines, and search APIs for enterprise catalogs
Domain
Enterprise search, relevance engineering, data infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, query DSL, relevance engineering, Lucene fundamentals, TypeScript, Python, ingestion pipelines, debugging, vector/hybrid search
Preferred skills
SAP/ERP data, multi-tenant architecture, Kubernetes, open-source contributions
Technologies
OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, TypeScript, Python, Kafka, Logstash, Data Prepper, OpenSearch Dashboards
Responsibilities
Design index mappings, analyzers, and sharding strategies; build and maintain indexing pipelines; optimize queries using DSL and relevance techniques; implement vector and hybrid search; define platform requirements and cluster sizing; build search APIs; diagnose performance issues; document architecture and decisions. (via careerplan.io/jobs/bcab4605-e928-4da6-bd32-eeb3de24e2ff-senior-search-engineer-opensearch-at-jobgether)
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
