Member Of Technical Staff
Builds and optimizes foundational search-engine components, indexing pipelines, retrieval and ranking systems, and distributed data-processing infrastructure at extreme scale. Requires at least three years of systems programming experience and strong expertise in concurrency, Linux internals, algorithms, and low-level performance optimization.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Design and build core search engine components, including indexing pipelines, retrieval algorithms, and ranking systems operating at the scale of billions of pages.
- Develop streaming and batch data-processing systems for search index construction in a high-load environment.
- Push hardware performance limits through low-level optimizations and systems-level tuning.
- Tackle challenges in multithreading, concurrency, and system-level optimization.
Requirements
- 3+ years of hands-on experience in systems programming with Rust, C++, C, or similar languages.
- Ownership of the full project lifecycle, including building, deploying, operating, and scaling systems in production.
- Knowledge of Python or other scripting languages.
- Passion for writing clean, efficient, and scalable systems-level code.
- Strong knowledge of algorithms and data structures and their practical application.
- Deep understanding of multithreading, including approaches, challenges, and trade-offs.
- Experience building high-load, distributed, and hardware-adjacent services.
- Solid understanding of Linux internals, including syscalls, networking stack, memory model, and kernel tuning.
- Familiarity with low-level optimization techniques, including memory management, cache efficiency, SIMD, and profiling.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience developing core components of search engines, databases, or information retrieval systems.
- Understanding of search fundamentals, including indexing, query parsing, ranking, and relevance.
- Experience with trading systems or other latency-sensitive real-time systems.
- Familiarity with cloud services, Kubernetes, and AWS infrastructure.
Skills
Rust, C++, C, Python, Algorithms, Data Structures, Multithreading, Concurrency, Linux, Simd, Profiling, Kubernetes, AWS, Distributed Systems, Search Engines
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