BACKEND ENGINEER

Role - ● Design, build, and scale backendservices and data pipelines that power search indexing ● Own performance, capacity, andreliability for your components — including latency, freshness, and indexingthroughput ● Debug and resolve complexproduction issues across distributed systems ● Partner with search ranking,serving, and product teams to evolve the indexing stack toward new requirements ● Raise the technical bar throughdesign reviews, code reviews, and mentorship of other engineers ● Drive technical direction for yourarea, including migrations off legacy components

-5+ years of professional softwareengineering experience, with a focus on backend or distributed systems ● Strong programming skills in oneor more of C++, Java, Go, Rust, or Python ● Hands-on experience building andoperating large-scale distributed systems in production ● Experience diagnosing and fixingperformance, scalability, and reliability problems ● Demonstrated ability to ownambiguous, multi-quarter technical problems end to end

• Direct experience with searchinfrastructure: inverted indexes, indexing pipelines, retrieval, or queryserving ● Experience with stream processingand large-scale data systems ● Experience with storage systems,caching layers, or sharding and replication strategies ● Track record of migrating orre-platforming production systems with no user-visible disruption