✨ About The Role
- The role involves leading, mentoring, and growing a team of backend and infrastructure engineers focused on building search systems.
- Collaboration with various teams is essential to push the boundaries of search reliability, performance, and scale across a range of AI-driven and cloud-native services.
- The candidate will be responsible for establishing a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture that fosters innovation and welcomes diverse viewpoints.
- The position requires a focus on ensuring that the search system can meet the increasing demands of customers in terms of scale and performance.
- The role also involves fostering innovation in the information retrieval field, ensuring operational excellence through state-of-the-art infrastructure.
âš¡ Requirements
- The ideal candidate will have a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- A minimum of 15 years of experience in engineering roles is required, with at least 8 years in leadership positions managing large-scale infrastructure or systems engineering teams.
- The candidate should have a proven track record in designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems.
- Deep expertise in scaling search systems to support high growth and optimizing search performance and reliability is essential.
- A passion for diversity, equity, and inclusion, along with a proven track record of building inclusive teams, is highly valued.
- Experience in attracting and hiring top talent for highly competitive technical roles is necessary, along with the ability to effectively communicate a vision that excites candidates.
- The candidate should be comfortable with fast-changing conditions and ambiguity, viewing challenges as opportunities to introduce order and structure.
- Strategic planning and execution experience at a senior organizational level is preferred.