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Software Engineer, Search and Discovery Platform

Full-stack EngineerSoftware EngineerFull TimeRemoteTeam 201-500Since 2021H1B SponsorCompany Site LinkedIn

Location

California + 2 more

Posted

136 days ago

Salary

$162K - $260K / year

Bachelor Degree5 yrs expEnglishAWSCloudDistributed SystemsEC2Elastic SearchGrafanaKafkaPythonSparkTerraform

Job Description

• Build the services and infrastructure to enable advanced recommendation systems solutions for real-time, dynamic feeds • Build a scalable, stable, low latency discovery experience • Partner closely across the machine learning, platform, and product engineering teams to utilize models to solve discovery problems • Contribute scalable solutions across various serving stacks at the feed, search, machine learning service, and Discovery application layers. • Define and advance our technical approach to scalable recommendation systems.

Job Requirements

5+ years of experience
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Software Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent work experience
Industry experience in building and scaling a platform to handle high volume / throughput applications
Ability to work autonomously and lead initiatives across multiple product areas and communicate findings with leadership and product teams. You can mentor others and prioritize building inclusive, supportive teams.
Experience in machine learning fields (e.g. Recommendations, Content Understanding and Search).
Expert at designing and building scalable and maintainable backend systems.
Firm grasp of visualization tools for monitoring and logging e.g. DataDog, Grafana
Familiarity with cloud computing platforms and managed services such as AWS Sagemaker, Lambda, Kinesis, S3, EC2, EKS/ECS, Kafka, Flink/Spark, OpenSearch, ElasticSearch, Lucene, SOLR.
Experience with concurrent programming patterns across distributed systems (AsyncIO python preferred), and optimizations / profiling / observability associated with them.
Experience managing cloud technologies (AWS or Google Cloud) and comfort with infrastructure-as-code approaches (e.g. Terraform).
Proficiency in at least one server-side programming language (preferably Python), common algorithms and data structures, and software design principles.
Self-starter ethic, thriving under a high level of autonomy.
Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.

Benefits

Generous Holiday and Time off Policy
Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision
Work From Home Support
Home office setup allowance
Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet
Care benefits
Monthly allowance for wellness
Annual allowance towards Childcare
Lifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses
Retirement; 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US (employer match up to 4% of base salary) and Pension plans internationally
Monthly allowance to dogfood the app
Parental Leave
16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work *company leave allowances run concurrently with country leave requirements which take precedence.