Shopify · 2 months ago
Java Search Infrastructure Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior LevelShopify is a leading e-commerce platform that empowers entrepreneurs and enterprises to succeed. As a Java Search Infrastructure Engineer, you will build distributed systems that power search query serving across billions of products, collaborating with platform engineers and SREs to create scalable and resilient infrastructure.
E-CommerceE-Commerce PlatformsEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Responsibilities
Build high-throughput scatter-gather systems that coordinate queries across hundreds of shards and aggregate results efficiently
Own search APIs end-to-end—interface design, load balancing, circuit breaking, and graceful degradation
Optimize networking and JVM performance—connection pooling, request batching, GC tuning, and profiling for high-load scenarios
Design comprehensive observability through structured logging, metrics, and distributed tracing
Build A/B testing frameworks enabling data-driven experimentation at scale
Solve distributed systems challenges—consistency, availability, latency tail tolerance, and failure handling
Qualification
Required
Proven expertise in Java for building production distributed systems at scale
Experience with search infrastructure, particularly scatter-gather patterns and distributed query execution
Networking expertise—HTTP/2, TCP tuning, connection management, protocol design
Experience with service frameworks—Thrift, gRPC, or similar RPC frameworks
Observability expertise—building logging pipelines, metrics infrastructure, distributed tracing
Load balancing and A/B testing experience—consistent hashing, adaptive routing, experiment design
Strong collaboration skills, working with cross-disciplinary teams including platform engineers and data scientists
Company
Shopify
Shopify is a cloud-based, multi-channel commerce platform designed for small and medium-sized businesses.
Founded in 2004
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$122.25MKey Investors
Bessemer Venture PartnersKlister Credit
2015-05-21IPO
2013-12-11Series C· $100M
2011-10-17Series B· $15M
Leadership Team
Tobias Lütke
CEO
Mikhail Parakhin
Chief Technology Officer
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