Java Backend SE

Role - ● Design, build, and scale backend services and data pipelines that power search indexing ● Own performance, capacity, and reliability for your components — including latency, freshness, and indexing throughput ● Debug and resolve complex production issues across distributed systems ● Partner with search ranking, serving, and product teams to evolve the indexing stack toward new requirements ● Raise the technical bar through design reviews, code reviews, and mentorship of other engineers ● Drive technical direction for your area, including migrations off legacy components Minimum qualifications -5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a focus on backend or distributed systems ● Strong programming skills in one or more of C++, Java, Go, Rust, or Python ● Hands-on experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production ● Experience diagnosing and fixing performance, scalability, and reliability problems ● Demonstrated ability to own ambiguous, multi-quarter technical problems end to end Preferred qualifications ● Direct experience with search infrastructure: inverted indexes, indexing pipelines, retrieval, or query serving ● Experience with stream processing and large-scale data systems ● Experience with storage systems, caching layers, or sharding and replication strategies ● Track record of migrating or re-platforming production systems with no user-visible disruption