Senior Principal Software Engineer - Search Platform

As a senior technical leader, you will be expected to lead other engineers to define our strategic technical direction, and to execute involved projects from design to launch. You will widely collaborate with other teams and leaders globally to influence, set expectations, gather inputs and communicate results. Your role is pivotal in identifying and driving step-change initiatives, ensuring Search and AI's transformative potential is realized across our offerings for all our customers.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with partner teams and internal customers to help define technical direction and OKRs for the Search Platform team.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration and deliver a world-class end-to-end search experience.

• Own key OKRs and end-to-end outcomes of critical projects in a microservices environment

• Champion best practices and innovative techniques for scalability, reliability, and performance optimizations.

• Own engineering and operational excellence for the health of our systems and processes. Proactively drive opportunities for continuous improvements and own key operational metrics.

• Continually drive developer productivity initiatives to ensure that we unleash the potential of our own team.

• Help hire and mentor engineers to build an open, innovative and operationally responsible culture.
  

• Strong technical expertise and 12+ years experience in designing/building enterprise grade solutions using microservices. Fluency in at least one modern object-oriented programming language (preferably Java)

• Deep knowledge and experience building large-scale, highly available distributed systems and search technologies (e.g. Lucene, Solr, OpenSearch, Vector dbs)

• Experience building and operating large scale distributed systems using cloud technologies from AWS/Azure/GCP

• Focus on business outcomes and the 80/20 rule; very high bar for output quality, but recognize the business benefit of 'ship small, ship fast and iterate vs building for perfection

• Passion for engineering rigor and operational excellence (design principles and patterns, unit testing, best practices for security and privacy, CI/CD etc). You will be a role model for operational responsibility and data-driven engineering rigor.

• Excellent collaboration, communication and leadership skills. Ability to get engineers to follow their lead as well as mentor/coach

• High level of energy and a desire to innovate in a large, fast-paced organization; ability to balance multiple projects under pressure

• Experience with search relevance models and ML platforms

• Significant experience in cell based architecture

• Data analysis using Spark/Databricks