Software Engineer - Search Infrastructure

SpaceXAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. As a backend engineer, you’ll design and build scalable, high-performance systems that power subscriptions infrastructure, new monetized products, user growth, and creator monetization. You’ll work on mission-critical infrastructure that processes millions of transactions, optimizes user acquisition and retention, and enables creators to earn a living through their content. This is a unique opportunity to make a large-scale revenue impact while creating products that users and businesses love.

Responsibilities

Design and build large scale search infrastructure (real-time indexing, serving, and data pipelines) that handles massive write and query loads with strict latency and reliability requirements; Go deep into search internals (indexing, query execution, and relevance) and help shape the technical direction of the core search infrastructure; Operate production services end to end, including monitoring, debugging, incident response, and performance optimization; Lead and drive incident responses and recovery with your peers. Review and contribute to incident postmortems and hold a high bar for the same

Requirements

5+ years developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or experience with storage or hardware architecture; Proficient in high performance Rust, C++ or JVM-based languages; Hands-on experience with search and indexing technologies (Elasticsearch, Lucene, or similar) and an understanding of how they work and why; Experience with operating system internals, filesystems, networking, or database storage engines; Obsessed performance, reliability, scalability and quality; Ability to take full ownership of problems and learn whatever is needed to solve them; Comfortable moving quickly in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities and tight deadlines

Nice to have

Contributions to open-source search or infrastructure projects

Benefits

equity; comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage; access to a 401(k) retirement plan; short & long-term disability insurance; life insurance; various other discounts and perks