Software Engineer - Search Platform [IC4]

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Meet with and get to know your peers and other people around the company
• - Familiarize yourself with the product and the area of focus for the search core team
• - Contribute to our software with commits and code reviews
• - Build rapport with the search team and become an effective and proactive asynchronous communicator
• - Increase understanding of the product, technology, and tools
• - Actively contribute to the team’s technical discussions, architecture designs
• - Participate in the team’s on-call and support rotation
• - Shape the direction and participate in the planning of the features to be built by the team
• - Collaborate with your engineering peers on identifying and solving different technical and organizational challenges

Required Skills

• - Proficient in Go or have a solid foundation in other strongly-typed programming languages
• - Strong background in information retrieval concepts and search engine fundamentals
• - Experience with large-scale search indexing systems
• - Systems programming expertise with focus on performance, scalability, and storage optimization
• - Track record of delivering end-to-end search solutions from architecture through implementation
• - Communicate well, accept and incorporate feedback from others
• - Experience with repository management at scale using Git, Perforce, CVS, or other version control systems
• - Experience with relational databases such as Postgres
• - Experience with instrumenting applications
• - Developer tool or platform industry experience
• - Experience building SaaS and on-premise applications

Benefits

• - Equity
• - Generous perks & benefits
• - Competitive compensation