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

Minimum qualifications

-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

Preferred qualifications

. 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