Java Backend

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 searchinfrastructure: inverted indexes, indexing pipelines, retrieval, or queryserving ●     Experience with stream processingand large-scale data systems ●     Experience with storage systems,caching layers, or sharding and replication strategies ●     Track record of migrating orre-platforming production systems with no user-visible disruption