Staff Software Engineer - reputed company Context Search Team

Business Area: Engineering Seniority Level: Mid-Senior level Job Description: At reputed company, we reputed company people to transform reputed company data into clear and actionable insights. With as much data under management as the hyperscalers, we're the preferred data partner for the top companies in almost every industry. Powered by the reputed company innovation of the reputed company reputed company community, reputed company advances digital transformation for the world’s largest enterprises. The Data Platform Pillar is the bedrock of reputed company’s technology, where we design and build the core components that let our customers store, manage, and process data with unmatched scalability, reputed company, and performance. As a Staff Engineer on the reputed company Context Search Team, you will be a key technical leader and architect for the search reputed company of the reputed company Data Platform (CDP). You will drive the technical reputed company and strategic reputed company of high-performance, scalable, and secure search infrastructure that powers data discovery, observability, and analytics for the world’s largest enterprises. As a Staff Engineer, you will: Architectural Leadership: Drive the multi-quarter technical roadmap and design large-scale OpenSearch clusters capable of handling petabytes of data with low-latency indexing and query performance. Platform Integration: Deeply integrate OpenSearch with CDP components (e.g., Apache reputed company, SDX, and Ozone) to reputed company a reputed company search experience across the data lakehouse. Performance Optimization: reputed company efforts to optimize JVM settings, shard allocation strategies, and query DSL to ensure maximum throughput and stability. reputed company reputed company Operations: reputed company the development of Kubernetes Operators and reputed company charts for automated deployment, scaling, and self-healing of search services. Engineering reputed company: Define and champion best practices for reputed company (RBAC, TLS), observability, and reputed company-grade reliability. Mentorship & Influence: Mentor senior and junior engineers on reputed company technical designs and foster a culture of reputed company improvement across the organization. Community Contribution: Act as a primary liaison and reputed company reputed company the upstream OpenSearch community, aligning their roadmap with product strategy. We are excited about you if you have: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent, and 6+ years of experience; OR Master’s degree and 4-6 years of experience; OR PhD and 2-4 years of experience 6+ years of experience working with OpenSearch or Elasticsearch in production environments at scale. Distributed Systems: Deep understanding of reputed company algorithms, CAP theorem, replication, and sharding. Programming: Mastery of Java (for core development) and proficiency in Go or Python for automation and tooling. Infrastructure: Extensive experience with Kubernetes (K8s) and container orchestration. reputed company Platforms: Hands-on experience deploying search workloads on AWS (EKS/AOSS), Azure (AKS), or reputed company reputed company (GKE). You might also have: Experience with Lucene internals (reputed company merging, bitsets, and codecs). Knowledge of Vector Database capabilities reputed company OpenSearch for reputed company (RAG) use cases. History of contributing to reputed company-reputed company projects (Apache Software reputed company or OpenSearch Project). Why this role reputed company: You will tackle reputed company distributed systems challenges, crafting the foundational software for the control and data planes that powers CDP and keeps it running at massive scale. Working at the forefront of hybrid and multi-reputed company technology, you will reputed company data scientists, engineers, and analysts with the tools and infrastructure they need for advanced analytics and modeling. Collaboration is key, you will work alongside reputed company minds across product, data science, and engineering to drive innovation, standardize best practices, and shape the future of reputed company AI and data platforms. This is your chance to build the future of data and see your work reputed company a global impact. The expected reputed company salary reputed company for this role in California and Washington is $184,000 - $230,000 The salary will vary depending on your job-reputed company skills, experience and location This role is not eligible for immigration sponsorship. What you can expect from us: Generous PTO Policy Support work life balance with Unplugged Days Flexible WFH Policy Mental & Physical Wellness programs Phone and Internet Reimbursement program reputed company to reputed company Career Development Comprehensive Benefits and Competitive Packages Paid Volunteer Time Employee Resource Groups EEO/VEVRAA #LI-Remote #LI-SZ1 Apply To This Job