Search Engineer

USA (Remote)

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Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive hands-on search engineering for a Lucene-based platform, optimizing performance, quality, and migration planning.

  • Own troubleshooting, performance tuning, and indexing pipelines for the enterprise search platform.
  • Must-have: 7+ years in search engineering with Lucene-based stacks (Solr/OpenSearch/Lucidworks).
  • Standout: Leadership in technical teams and cloud migrations with AWS and low-latency APIs.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Troubleshooting and resolving issues within the search engine platform.
  • Improving search performance and quality.
  • Enhancing search query logic and indexing pipelines.
  • Supporting ongoing development and optimization of search functionality.
  • Assisting with search engine migration planning and prototyping new technologies.
  • Working within production environments to maintain and improve search services.
  • The role is highly hands-on and requires active coding and technical troubleshooting.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or related field.
  • 10+ years’ experience in total but with 7+ years of experience in search engineering.
  • 3+ years in a technical leadership role.
  • Strong experience with enterprise search technologies such as Apache Lucene, Solr, OpenSearch, Lucidworks, Coveo.
  • AWS (strongly preferred)
  • Python
  • Java
  • Scala (less emphasis)
  • Strong knowledge of Apache Lucene query syntax.
  • Experience operating in an Agile / Global team environment
  • Experience with building Low-latency API in AWS using Memory-storage solutions.
  • Familiarity with A/B testing frameworks for evaluating and improving
  • Strong knowledge with cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc.)
  • Advanced experience with version control / repositories such as GitHub

Preferred

  • Generative AI Knowledge
  • Experience integrating Generative AI with search systems is highly desirable.
  • DevOps & Production Practices
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Founded in 2006
Cedar Park, Texas, USA
164 employees

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