Staff Software Engineer, Search Platform Job at Airwallex (Singapore)

Staff Software Engineer, Search & Distributed Systems

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer who would thrive on being accountab...

Location

USA , Buffalo

Salary:

165000.00 - 260000.00 USD / Year

ACV Auctions

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3+ years operating at a Senior or Staff level focusing on distributed systems and high-throughput platforms.
Deep, authoritative knowledge of Elasticsearch internals. You have managed large-scale clusters and deeply understand mapping, analysis, query optimization, cluster state management, and split-brain mitigation.
Proficiency in the systems upstream and downstream of Search. You have hands-on experience with Kubernetes (EKS/GKE), API Gateway/BFF architectures, and event streams (Kafka).
A proven track record of implementing fault-tolerant patterns (retries, rate limiting, circuit breaking, dead letter queues) in microservice architectures.
Expert-level ability to instrument systems and diagnose complex performance issues using modern observability stacks (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
Strong communication skills with a proven ability to influence cross-functional teams, build consensus around architectural decisions (the Knoster model!), and mentor mid-level and senior engineers.

Job Responsibility

Architect for Scale: Design, configure, and scale our Elasticsearch clusters. You will define our global strategies for shard routing, Index Lifecycle Management (ILM), heap tuning, and data tiering to support massive auction throughput.
Master the Failure Modes: Anticipate and engineer away points of failure. You will design circuit breakers, implement backpressure mechanisms, and tune asymmetric timeouts to prevent retry storms between our BFFs, K8s services, and the Search layer.
Expert Troubleshooting & IR: Act as the ultimate technical escalation point for complex, cross-system performance degradation. You will dive deep into JVM metrics, Garbage Collection pauses, K8s network bottlenecks, and slow logs to uncover and remediate root causes.
Holistic System Ownership: Manage the entire data lifecycle. You will optimize the ingestion pipelines syncing our event datastreams driven by producers and consumers (Kafka) to Elasticsearch, ensuring eventual consistency and data integrity at scale.
Drive Engineering Excellence: Draft authoritative architectural Blueprints, SOPs, and Runbooks. You will elevate the surrounding engineering culture by coaching teams on distributed systems design, observability best practices, and incident management.
Modernize & Innovate: Scan the horizon for emerging technologies. You will help evaluate and integrate next-generation search capabilities (e.g., Vector Search, RAG architectures) to support our broader AI and machine learning initiatives.

What we offer

Multiple medical plans including a high deductible, low cost health plan
Company-sponsored (paid) Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, and Life Insurance
Comprehensive optional benefits such as Dental, Vision, Supplemental Life/AD&D, Legal/ID Protection, and Accident and Critical Illness Insurance
Generous paid time off options, including uncapped vacation days, the greater of 3 paid sick days or in accordance with the applicable state or local paid sick leave law, 6 paid company holidays, 2 floating holidays, parental leave, bereavement leave, jury duty leave, voting leave, and other forms of paid leave as required by applicable law or regulation
Employee Stock Purchase Program with additional opportunities to earn stock in the Company
Retirement planning through the Company's 401(k)

Fulltime

Staff Software Engineer, Search & Discovery

Ironclad is the leading AI contracting platform that transforms agreements into ...

Location

United States , San Francisco; Chicago; Seattle; New York City

Salary:

210000.00 - 235000.00 USD / Year

Ironclad

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

8+ years of software engineering experience with a proven track record of designing, building, and maintaining complex systems
Expertise in information retrieval, NLP, and machine learning
Deep understanding of concepts like indexing, ranking, query parsing, tokenization, and vector search
Hands-on experience with at least one major search engine (e.g., Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Solr)
Familiarity with search evaluation frameworks (e.g., precision, recall, NDCG)
Experience with NLP/ML models (e.g., transformers, embeddings), including fine-tuning and relevance feedback
Strong leadership skills with the ability to advise management on roadmap decisions and mentor junior team members
Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with a passion for shipping great products and a drive to improve technical architecture
Alignment with Ironclad’s Values: drive, intent, integrity, and empathy

Job Responsibility

Collaborate cross-functionally with designers, product managers, and other engineers to spec, design, and build features and systems for our core search platform
Partner with quality engineers to define, build and maintain testing strategy
Lead, mentor and provide thoughtful feedback to other team members
Grow your teams by interviewing and recruiting talented engineers to Ironclad
Work on a modern stack built upon: TypeScript, Python, ReactJS, Node.js, Java, and Docker containers in Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform

What we offer

100% health coverage for employees (medical, dental, and vision), and 75% coverage for dependents with buy-up plan options available
Market-leading leave policies, including gender-neutral parental leave and compassionate leave
Family forming support through Maven for you and your partner
Paid time off
Monthly stipends for wellbeing, hybrid work, and (if applicable) cell phone use
Mental health support through Modern Health, including therapy, coaching, and digital tools
Pre-tax commuter benefits (US Employees)
401(k) plan with Fidelity with employer match (US Employees)
Regular team events to connect, recharge, and have fun
Equity awards

Fulltime

Staff Software Engineer : Storage, Search, & Data Platforms

The Storage, Search, and Data (SSD) group is the custodian of Uber's digital int...

Location

United States , Seattle; San Francisco; Sunnyvale

Salary:

232000.00 - 258000.00 USD / Year

Uber

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

12+ years of software engineering experience, with a proven history of designing and operating massive-scale distributed data systems
Elite engineering skills in Go, Java, C++, or Rust. You are comfortable deep-diving into database internals, kernel-level optimizations, and complex distributed consensus protocols
Proven experience leading technical strategy across multiple teams or organizations, turning high-level business goals into concrete technical realities
Extensive experience managing Tier-0, mission-critical systems with 99.99% availability and global blast-radius constraints

Job Responsibility

Define and execute the multi-year roadmap to transition Uber from Data Storage to a Cloud-Native Data Provider, solving for cross-region latency, global metadata consistency, and exabyte-scale cost efficiency
Partner with Uber's AI/ML leadership to architect the Data-to-GPU pipeline. You will design the one-stop storage APIs that allow researchers to leverage high-performance data access across multi-cloud regions and vendors seamlessly
Drive the next generation of our core engines: Docstore (NoSQL), Vitess (Sharded MySQL), Apache Pinot (Real-time Analytics), and OpenSearch (Discovery)
You will represent Uber in the global community as a leader in key open source technologies including Apache, Hudi, Iceberg and many others

What we offer

Eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program
May be offered an equity award & other types of comp
Eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan
Various benefits

Fulltime

Staff Software Engineer, Catalog Platform

Whether it’s a sandwich, a burrito, or groceries, the Uber Eats team builds tech...

Location

Denmark , Aarhus

Salary:

Not provided

Uber

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Relevant degree (B.Sc, M.Sc, Ph.D) in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience (8+ years)
Experience coding with C++, Java, Python, or Go
Enjoy building high quality software that is relied upon by millions of people around the world.
Comfortable working with ambiguity in constantly evolving environment
Experience working in large scale distributed systems

Job Responsibility

Build the Product Catalog and Inventory system that powers the Uber Delivery experience, and related verticals, such as groceries.
This is one of the foundational components of the Uber Delivery architecture, as it interfaces with merchants, powers our product search, and serves recommendations to our customers.
The system is designed to be highly-available and highly-scalable to support our global operation 24/7.