Consulting/Principal Software Engineer

The ideal candidate enjoys problem-solving at scale, values automation and efficiency, and views infrastructure as another aspect of software engineering. Our goal is simple Change the world by providing researchers with tools that accelerate research output and its impact. If this resonates with you, we invite you to join us.

Your responsibilities will include

- Contributing to our shared search platform.
- Building world-class search systems to enhance users search experience.
- Automating processes to assist other teams.
- Collaborating on new ideas to optimize systems and engineering workflows.
- Building relationships with other engineering teams to identify and solve their pain points.
- Working across the stack, from development to infrastructure.

About you

- You are proficient in writing production-ready code. We use AWS, but experience with GCP or Azure is also acceptable, especially if you are competent with Kubernetes.
- You have experience with CI/CD and infrastructure as code.
- You view devops as a mindset, not a role. We operate under the motto we write it, we run it and are willing to engage in infrastructure work.
- You are passionate about creating high-quality, testable code. We write and design our own tests, measure untested things, and fix any problems we find.
- You are a team player who leaves your ego at the door. We value learning from each other and making decisions as a team.

Big Plus

- You have experience with GenAI Applications.
- You are familiar with Lucene, or have experience with Elasticsearch, Solr, or any other search engine, and have experience with Semantic Search.