Senior Software Engineer, Search Platform

About the role

You will build and improve the search platform that serves market intelligence across billions of documents. The focus is on distributed systems that answer many queries per second with low latency and high reliability.

What you will do

• Design and optimize infrastructure that handles billions of documents and high query volumes
• Lead migration from legacy systems to modern architecture with no downtime
• Set up monitoring, testing and deployment practices that catch problems early
• Profile and tune systems across infrastructure and application layers, balancing cost and speed

What they look for

• Five or more years building and running distributed systems in production
• Knowledge of sharding, replication, consistency and partition tolerance
• Strong performance tuning skills, able to diagnose and fix bottlenecks across the stack
• Skill in building observable systems with thorough monitoring and alerting

Nice to have

• Experience with search platforms such as Vespa, Elasticsearch or Solr, or similar large scale data systems