Principal Engineer, Agentic Search Infrastructure

Moveworks; Mountain View, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 191,000 - 334,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plans

401(k) with company match

Equity

Job summary

Moveworks is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to own the backbone of our agentic search infrastructure. You will design and operate indexing, ingestion, and retrieval systems that power AI agents across heterogeneous data sources.

Lead architectural decisions, drive scalability, and collaborate with ML, Platform, and Search teams to deliver production-grade capabilities for agent experiences at scale.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in CS or related field; PhD is a plus.
• 8-12+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems, search platforms, or data infrastructure.
• Deep hands-on experience with search technologies such as Lucene, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Solr, or comparable retrieval systems.
• Experience building and scaling production systems that leverage vector search, embeddings, retrieval systems, or AI-driven search capabilities.
• Proven track record of leading complex technical initiatives across teams and influencing architectural decisions beyond an individual team's scope.

Responsibilities

• Own core search infrastructure design, development, and operation, including indexing, ingestion, metadata enrichment, and retrieval foundations.
• Drive technical strategy and architecture to scale the agentic search platform for future use cases and data sources.
• Lead end-to-end search lifecycle, from content ingestion through retrieval and ranking.

Skills

Distributed systems

Search technologies

Architectural decisions

Leadership

Operational excellence

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS or related field

PhD is a plus

Tools

Lucene

Elasticsearch

OpenSearch

Solr

Job description

Moveworks is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to own the backbone of our agentic search infrastructure. You will design and operate indexing, ingestion, and retrieval systems that power AI agents across heterogeneous data sources.

Lead architectural decisions, drive scalability, and collaborate with ML, Platform, and Search teams to deliver production-grade capabilities for agent experiences at scale.