BACKEND ENGINEER

SILVERLINK TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

SILVERLINK TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD. is seeking an experienced backend engineer to design, build, and scale backend services and data pipelines powering search indexing.

You will own performance, capacity, and reliability across distributed systems, diagnose complex production issues, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to advance the indexing stack to meet evolving requirements.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience focused on backend or distributed systems.
• Strong programming skills in C++, Java, Go, Rust, or Python.
• Hands-on experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
• Experience diagnosing and fixing performance, scalability, and reliability problems.
• Ability to own ambiguous, multi-quarter technical problems end to end.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale backend services and data pipelines powering search indexing.
• Own performance, capacity, and reliability including latency and indexing throughput.
• Debug and resolve complex production issues across distributed systems.
• Partner with search ranking, serving, and product teams to evolve indexing stack toward new requirements.
• Raise the technical bar through design reviews, code reviews, and mentorship of other engineers.
• Drive technical direction for your area, including migrations off legacy components.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

C++, Java, Go, Rust, Python

Job description

Role -

• Design, build, and scale backendservices and data pipelines that power search indexing
• Own performance, capacity, andreliability for your components — including latency, freshness, and indexingthroughput
• Debug and resolve complexproduction issues across distributed systems
• Partner with search ranking,serving, and product teams to evolve the indexing stack toward new requirements
• Raise the technical bar throughdesign reviews, code reviews, and mentorship of other engineers
• Drive technical direction for yourarea, including migrations off legacy components

Minimum qualifications

• -5+ years of professional softwareengineering experience, with a focus on backend or distributed systems
• Strong programming skills in oneor more of C++, Java, Go, Rust, or Python
• Hands-on experience building andoperating large-scale distributed systems in production
• Experience diagnosing and fixingperformance, scalability, and reliability problems
• Demonstrated ability to ownambiguous, multi-quarter technical problems end to end

Preferred qualifications

• Direct experience with searchinfrastructure: inverted indexes, indexing pipelines, retrieval, or queryserving
• Experience with stream processingand large-scale data systems
• Experience with storage systems,caching layers, or sharding and replication strategies
• Track record of migrating orre-platforming production systems with no user-visible disruption