Hybrid Software Engineer, Search Data Infrastructure

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About the role

  • Software Engineer developing scalable, resilient offline indexing pipelines for Slack's search infrastructure. Collaborating with product engineering to build new features and ensure system reliability.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop scalable, resilient offline indexing pipelines for Slack's search infrastructure
  • Collaborate with product engineering to conceptualize and build new features
  • Ensure high availability and reliability of a distributed search system
  • Produce high-quality results contributing heavily to team projects
  • Actively own team features or systems and define their long-term health
  • Deploy, configure, test, troubleshoot, maintain, and upgrade Solr clusters and environments
  • Plan resources and continuously optimize infrastructure and configuration of Solr clusters
  • Assist support team in triaging and resolving production issues
  • Collaborate with engineers and conduct code reviews
  • Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience
  • Extensive experience with distributed data processing frameworks such as Spark, Hadoop, Map/Reduce, or EMR
  • Experience with Solr, ElasticSearch, Lucene, or other search technology
  • Exposure to infrastructure/ops tools and frameworks such as Terraform, Chef, and Kubernetes
  • Proficient with functional or imperative programming languages — e.g., PHP, Python, Ruby, Go, C, or Java
  • Track record of developing high-availability, performant, and scalable systems accessing large volumes of data over multiple clusters across different geographical regions
  • Experience planning, implementing, and deploying software migrations and upgrades in a production environment
  • Excellent communication skills to explain complex technical concepts
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience.

Benefits

  • time off programs
  • medical
  • dental
  • vision
  • mental health support
  • paid parental leave
  • life and disability insurance
  • 401(k)
  • employee stock purchasing program

Job title

Software Engineer, Search Data Infrastructure

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

$117,200 - $223,900 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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