Senior Principal Engineer, Search Platform

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with technical leads, partner teams and internal customers to define technical strategy and architecture for Search Data.
• Lead the evolution of our data platform and pipelines to meet the demands of both real-time search freshness and AI/agentic retrieval at enterprise scale.
• Make hard architectural trade-offs between freshness, correctness, cost, and operational simplicity - and own the outcomes.
• Drive the simplification and modernization of complex, legacy data processing systems.
• Identify and eliminate unnecessary complexity.
• Design systems that are understandable, testable, and operable.
• Establish design patterns and best practices for handling the inherent messiness of real-world data - schema evolution, partial failures, eventual consistency, connector variability, and data quality degradation.
• Own engineering and operational excellence for the health of our systems and processes. Proactively drive opportunities for continuous improvements and own key operational metrics.
• Transform developer productivity to ensure that we unleash the potential of our own team with agents.
• Champion a culture of high ownership, rigorous testing, safe rollouts, and data-driven engineering across Search Data teams.

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