About the Role
About the Role
The Member of Technical Staff will be responsible for designing and building core search engine components, including indexing pipelines and retrieval algorithms. This role requires a strong background in systems programming and a passion for developing scalable systems-level code.
What You'll Do
- Design and build core search engine components, including indexing pipelines, retrieval algorithms, and ranking systems that operate at the scale of billions of pages.
- Develop streaming and batch data processing systems for search index construction in a high-load environment.
- Push the limits of hardware performance through low-level optimizations and systems-level tuning.
- Tackle challenges in multithreading, concurrency, and system-level optimization.
Who You Are
- 3+ years of hands-on experience in systems programming (Rust, C++, C, or similar).
- Ownership of full project lifecycle — you don't just write a fast inner loop, you care about how the system is built, deployed, operated, and scaled 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 the ability to apply them effectively.
- Deep understanding of multithreading, including various approaches, challenges, and trade-offs.
- Experience building high-load, distributed, and hardware-adjacent services.
- Solid understanding of Linux internals (syscalls, networking stack, memory model, kernel tuning).
- Familiarity with low-level optimization techniques (memory management, cache efficiency, SIMD, profiling).
Bonus Points
- Experience developing core components of search engines, databases, or information retrieval systems.
- Understanding of search fundamentals: 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.
Requirements
Systems programming
3+ years of hands-on experience in systems programming (Rust, C++, C, or similar).
Project lifecycle ownership
You care about how the system is built, deployed, operated, and scaled in production.
Knowledge of Python
Familiarity with Python or other scripting languages is required.
Algorithms and data structures
Strong knowledge of algorithms and data structures, and the ability to apply them effectively.
Multithreading expertise
Deep understanding of multithreading, including various approaches, challenges, and trade-offs.
Nice to Have
Experience developing core components of search engines, databases, or information retrieval systems.
Understanding of search fundamentals: indexing, query parsing, ranking, and relevance.
Familiarity with cloud services, Kubernetes, and AWS infrastructure.