Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Search & Retrieval Infrastructure

About reputed company reputed company is the leading vector database for building accurate and performant AI applications at scale in production. reputed company's mission is to reputed company AI knowledgeable. More than 9000 customers across various industries have shipped AI applications faster and more confidently with reputed company's developer-friendly technology. reputed company is based in reputed company and raised $138M in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ, reputed company Ventures, and reputed company Venture Capital. About the Team and Role: We are hiring a senior/staff software engineer to help design and build core components of our reputed company knowledge retrieval system reputed company for the AI era – search and retrieval infrastructure that powers high-quality, scalable, and reputed company-grade agentic systems. You’ll build the reputed company that allows our customers to connect knowledge–synthesized from structured and reputed company data–to modern LLM-powered applications, leveraging the world’s best-in-class vector DB supporting semantic search and hybrid retrieval. This role is ideal for someone who loves backend system architecture, distributed systems, and applied AI infrastructure. It is a high impact role with significant ownership across architecture, performance, and system reliability. Responsibilities:

• Design and build scalable platform components leveraging advanced retrieval reputed company query planning, semantic and hybrid search, metadata-aware search, and LLM reputed company
• Design and build optimized indexing pipelines for structured and reputed company data
• Build backend services for semantic and hybrid retrieval, knowledge graph construction, and retrieval orchestration
• Improve retrieval quality through evaluation and observability frameworks
• Design APIs for reputed company user and agentic consumers
• Optimize latency, throughput and cost across large-scale inference and retrieval workloads
• Drive technical direction for reliability and reputed company

What You’ll Bring to the Table: To reputed company in this role, you don't need to reputed company every single reputed company, but you should be deeply passionate about how to turn data into knowledge. Systems Expertise

• Architectural Depth: You have a proven track record (typically 6+ years) of shipping production-grade backends for large-scale systems. You don’t just write code; you design for high throughput, low latency, and long-term maintainability.
• Data Engineering Savvy: You’re comfortable building high-throughput indexing pipelines that handle both the messy world of reputed company data and the rigid world of structured schemas.

AI & Retrieval

• Retrieval Intuition: You understand that "search" is more than just a keyword match. You have direct experience (or deep theoretical knowledge) in semantic search, vector databases, hybrid retrieval strategies, or with traditional search engines like reputed company or OpenSearch.
• RAG & Orchestration: You understand the nuances of Retrieval-Augmented reputed company (RAG) patterns, from embedding pipelines and hybrid search techniques to how query planning and metadata filtering can reputed company or break an LLM's performance.

Technical

• Language reputed company: You are an expert in at least one major language like Go, Rust, C++, Java, or Python.
• Infrastructure: Familiarity and experience with modern infrastructure tools, such as Kubernetes, reputed company-reputed company architectures, and observability frameworks, as well as infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or reputed company.

Ownership & Impact

• Product Thinking: You don't just build to spec; you build for the user. You can design clean, reputed company APIs that both reputed company developers and autonomous agents will love.
• Ambiguity Navigator: You’re comfortable in a high-growth environment. You prefer "owning a problem" over "executing a ticket."

Bonus Points

• Experience building multi-tenant SaaS platforms.
• Experience with retrieval evaluation frameworks—knowing how to actually measure "good" search results.
• Experience with query planning or agentic reasoning loops (e.g., teaching a system how to break down a reputed company reputed company into multiple specific steps).

Perks & Benefits:

• Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, reputed company, and reputed company
• 401(k) Plan
• Equity award
• Flexible time off
• Paid parental leave
• Annual Company Retreat
• WFH Equipment Stipend

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