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Figma · 3 hours ago

Software Engineer - Search Platform

United States

Full-time

Remote

Mid, Senior Level

$149K/yr - $350K/yr

5+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain scalable and efficient infrastructure for Figma’s search platform, focusing on centralizing and standardizing solutions.

Improve the internal developer experience of working with search by developing low-code interfaces that allow product teams to easily index and manage data for new and existing search use-cases.

Collaborate with the Search Quality, Search Experience, and other product teams to ensure seamless integration of search infrastructure with product-side logic.

Contribute to the development of a new unified search indexing and backfilling pipeline.

Enhance observability and monitoring of search clusters to provide infrastructure-level SLO guarantees.

Participate in setting the technical direction and strategy for search technologies, aligning with the long-term vision of the Search Platform team.

Qualification

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Distributed SystemsSearch Engine TechnologiesSearch Performance OptimizationSearch AlgorithmsIndexingQuery ProcessingRubyGoRustCustom Engineering SolutionsCross-Functional Collaboration

Required

5+ years of experience in building and scaling distributed systems, both search clusters and also services around them.

Strong expertise in search engine technologies such as OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, or Solr.

Knowledge of search algorithms, indexing, and query processing.

Proficiency in optimizing search performance and reducing latency.

Excellent problem-solving skills and a proven track record of completing projects that required cross-functional partnership.

The ability to break down complex topics to successfully communicate with various audiences.

Preferred

Experience with novel, custom solutions to complex engineering challenges.

Familiarity with modern programming languages such as Ruby, Go, or Rust.

Experience in evangelizing innovative infrastructure and developer tools.

Benefits

Health, dental & vision

Retirement with company contribution

Parental leave & reproductive or family planning support

Mental health & wellness benefits

Generous PTO

Company recharge days

A learning & development stipend

A work from home stipend

Cell phone reimbursement

Company

Figma

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Figma is a design platform that develops web applications for interface design with offline features.

Founded in 2012

San Francisco, California, USA

1,001-5,000 employees

https://www.figma.com

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