Senior Software Engineer - Data Backend (Search Quality)

The Search Quality team is looking for a data-oriented backend engineer to build and improve our internal systems to better support prototyping, testing, and scaling the next generation of Search with us. You ll be working closely with engineers on multiple teams to orchestrate a seamless development, testing, and shipping experience that will help bring us closer to our long-term goals.
This opportunity requires you to be located in the United Kingdom.

What you ll do:

• Build, extend, and support our backend platforms to support prototyping, testing, and scaling our Search systems.
• Work closely with product-focused backend engineers on the team to build efficient systems for Search Annotations, Recall, and LLM-backed search experiences in general.
• Team up with other engineering groups, such as Ads and Market Engineering, to build cohesive backend systems that support our shared visions.
• Contribute to our next gen, smarter search roadmap, vision, and execution.

What it takes to succeed:

• Fluency in an object-oriented language (like Python or Java)
• Experience with databases (SQL and NoSQL), Unix, developing within a Continuous Integration/Deployment pipeline.
• Proficient in AWS services such as S3, Glue, Athena.
• Skilled in building and supporting large-scale distributed systems that back a consumer app or website.
• Expertise in building effective APIs (like REST or GraphQL).
• Comfortable with performance analysis tools (e.g. tracers, profilers, debuggers, visualization tools).
• Capable of working and coordinating requirements across teams.
• Excellent documentation skills.
• Interest or experience in developing infrastructure supporting data-intensive applications.