MCubeSoft · 12 hours ago
Sr. Search Platform Engineer
San Francisco, CA
Contract
Onsite
Senior Level
7+ years expMCubeSoft is seeking a Senior Search Platform Engineer with strong hands-on experience in designing, operating, and optimizing large-scale distributed search systems. The role focuses on running search platforms at scale and supporting the modernization and migration of existing search infrastructure.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)ConsultingInformation TechnologyIT Infrastructure
Responsibilities
Design, deploy, and operate large-scale distributed search clusters
Optimize indexing, querying, and shard strategies for performance and reliability
Diagnose and resolve search-related performance, scalability, and stability issues
Support the modernization or migration of search platforms (e.g., Solr to OpenSearch/Elasticsearch)
Partner with application and platform teams to improve search relevance, latency, and throughput
Contribute to search architecture decisions, capacity planning, and operational best practices
Qualification
Required
7+ years of experience as a backend, platform, or infrastructure engineer
Strong hands-on experience with distributed search platforms, such as Apache Solr
Elasticsearch / OpenSearch or comparable large-scale search technologies
Experience operating search systems at very large scale (hundreds of millions to billions of documents)
Experience with ingesting data to ElasticSearch or OpenSearch that needs expertise in the data migration and data pipeline development space
Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts, including: Sharding and replication, Cluster coordination and failover, Index lifecycle management
Proven experience with performance tuning and optimization for search workloads
Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills in production environments
Preferred
Experience migrating or modernizing search platforms (e.g., Solr OpenSearch/Elasticsearch)
Experience with cloud-based deployments (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure)
Knowledge of data ingestion pipelines and reindexing strategies
Familiarity with observability tools for monitoring and performance analysis
Experience working with high-availability, fault-tolerant systems
Company
MCubeSoft
Solutions with Excellence
11-50 employees
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