Gen AI-Driven Search Platform Engineer (Remote)

Reddit, Inc.; Canada; Remote; CAD 372,000 - 523,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer for the Search Platform team. This role involves leading the development of an innovative Ai-driven search platform, ensuring scalability and reliability while collaborating with product engineers. Ideal candidates will have over 10 years of software engineering experience, particularly in cloud-native search systems. Competitive salary range: $266,000 - $372,400 USD.

Benefits

Comprehensive healthcare benefits

401k match

Family planning support

Mental health & coaching benefits

Flexible vacation

Paid volunteer time off

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, specializing in cloud-native search and retrieval systems.
• 3+ years of technical leadership, architecting and scaling distributed systems in production environments.
• Deep expertise in lexical and vector retrieval technologies.
• Skilled in designing cloud-native architectures and managing containerized workloads using Kubernetes and AWS/GCP.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical strategy, architecture, and implementation of Reddit’s next-generation search engine.
• Partner with product engineers to deliver high-quality, low-latency search and retrieval experiences.
• Define best practices for observability and reliability in large-scale distributed systems.
• Mentor and guide engineers in scalable search infrastructure design.

Skills

Cloud-native search systems

Lexical and vector retrieval

Kubernetes

AWS/GCP

Real-time data pipelines

Designing cloud-native architectures

Education

10+ years of software engineering experience

Experience in technical leadership

Tools

ElasticSearch

Lucene

Tantivy

Milvus

Job description

A leading technology company is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer for the Search Platform team. This role involves leading the development of an innovative Ai-driven search platform, ensuring scalability and reliability while collaborating with product engineers. Ideal candidates will have over 10 years of software engineering experience, particularly in cloud-native search systems. Competitive salary range: $266,000 - $372,400 USD.