Staff Software Engineer, Search Platform

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Remote-hybrid work from our awesome Boston office OR your home OR a mixture of both home and officeFull-TimeStaff

Salary184,000 - 232,000 USD per year OTE

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8+ years of professional software engineering experience
Deep experience designing, building, and tuning search engines (Elasticsearch, Solr, OpenSearch, Vespa, or equivalent)
Strong proficiency in Go, or a willingness to adopt it as a primary language
Experience with real-time data pipelines (Kafka, event streaming) for search indexing
Strong instincts for relevance and ranking
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Experience with workflow orchestration (Temporal, Airflow, or equivalent) is a plus
Familiarity with geospatial systems and spatial filtering is a plus

Own the Search Engine architecture: technology direction (Vespa-based), document schema, query serving, and operational model
Own and build the Indexing Pipeline: Temporal-orchestrated workflows that ingest, validate, transform, and write data into the search engine and availability store
Own Availability: zone-based delivery filtering, schedule matching, and the data model that powers it
Own the Two-Stage Filtering Architecture: zone-based availability filtering followed by Vespa filtering and ranking
Drive search relevance and ranking strategy across ordering contexts and customer types
Define clear, well-versioned APIs and contracts for how search and availability are consumed
Manage migration sequencing and risk across the phased rollout
Build a measurement and experimentation foundation supporting full-funnel evaluation
Lead through collaborative design, technical discussions, and aligning teams
Partner with Platform Engineering, product, and data stakeholders

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