Senior Staff Software Engineer, Search Platform

10+ years of experience in software engineering, specializing in cloud-native search and retrieval systems 3+ years in technical leadership, architecting and scaling distributed systems in production environments Deep expertise in lexical and vector retrieval technologies (Milvus, Vespa, Elasticsearch) Strong knowledge of Lucene and Tantivy internals Skilled in designing cloud-native architectures and managing containerized workloads using Kubernetes and AWS/GCP Proven track record in building real-time data pipelines, indexing frameworks, and hybrid search architectures Strong communicator and mentor

Lead the design and development of Reddit’s next-generation search engine Define the technical vision and drive architecture decisions Mentor and guide engineers in designing scalable search infrastructure Partner closely with product engineers across various teams to deliver search and retrieval experiences Define best practices for observability, reliability, and operational excellence Collaborate with infrastructure and ML teams