Staff Backend Engineer, Search

Responsibilities

• As a Senior Engineer on the Search squad, you'll be responsible for designing, optimizing, and scaling our search infrastructure. Our platform is built as backend services on top of Postgres and OpenSearch, focused on real-time search ingestion and serving. You'll work hands-on with these systems to ensure users can…
• Design and implement robust search solutions that scale with our rapidly growing user base
• Improve search relevance, accuracy, and speed to deliver the most relevant results to users at blazing fast speeds
• Improve our real-time indexing pipelines to ensure search results remain up-to-date
• Create measurement frameworks to evaluate and improve search quality
• Build and enhance vector search capabilities to power next-generation search experiences
• Collaborate with AI, backend, and product teams to integrate search into new features
• Troubleshoot complex search-related issues at scale
• Improve out real-time indexing pipelines to ensure search results remain up-to-date

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