Lucidworks
Leaders in AI-Powered Search
Senior Managed Services Engineer
Location
United States
Posted
177 days ago
Salary
$120K - $165K / year
Bachelor Degree6 yrs expExperience acceptedEnglishAWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaJava ScriptKubernetesPythonSpark
Job Description
• Maintain configurations implemented for Managed Fusion customers and provide ongoing maintenance post go-live
• Act as a senior technical expert, providing in-depth support and proactive maintenance for a diverse customer base
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex ingestion, indexing, and system performance issues related to Lucene/Solr, Lucidworks Fusion, and cloud infrastructure
• Identify, reproduce, and document product issues and work closely with engineering teams to influence product improvements
• Lead incident response and root cause analysis for high-impact technical issues
• Participate in design and implementation of automation tools and monitoring frameworks for cloud-based managed services
• Mentor and guide junior engineers and foster knowledge sharing
• Collaborate with Support, Cloud engineering, and Customer Success teams and communicate with customers via ticketing systems (Zendesk)
• Define and update best practices based on lessons learned and cross-team discussions
• Collaborate with global teams and customers across multiple time zones
Job Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in technical support, search technology, or software development, with a strong focus on search platforms
- Expertise in Lucene/Solr or Lucidworks Fusion (required)
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant field (Computer Science, Engineering, etc.) or equivalent experience
- Proficiency in Java and scripting languages (JavaScript, Python preferred)
- Experience with cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure) and containerization technologies like Kubernetes
- Ability to analyze logs, stack traces, profiler snapshots, and performance metrics to diagnose system issues
- Experience working with connectors, web crawlers, and API integrations
- Strong knowledge of HTML, XML, JSON, REST APIs, and tools like Postman
- Excellent communication skills, with experience handling enterprise-level support interactions via email and ticketing systems (Zendesk, Jira, etc.)
- Prior experience leading incident management, root cause analysis, and customer escalations
- Exposure to related open-source technologies (Solr, Tika, Nashorn, Spark, AI, etc.) is a plus
- Prior experience working in global support environments and with international clients
- Willingness to participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation
- English fluency
- Ability to handle confidential information
- Ability to write JavaScript to modify ingestion/query manipulations
- Ability to troubleshoot ingestion or query pipeline issues
Benefits
- discretionary variable bonus
- equity
- top-notch medical, dental and vision coverage
- a variety of voluntary benefits
- generous PTO policy
- various leave policies
- many other region-specific benefits
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