Senior Real-Time Search Infrastructure Engineer

Socket.dev; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical, Vision, Dental

401(k) retirement plan

Disability & Life Insurance

Job summary

SpaceXAI is seeking a Backend Engineer to design and build scalable, high-performance systems powering subscriptions, monetized products, and creator monetization. You will work on mission-critical infrastructure handling millions of transactions and enabling creators to earn revenue through their content.

Key work includes optimizing search infrastructure, real-time data pipelines, and end-to-end production operations.

Qualifications

• 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 with 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.

Responsibilities

• Design and build large-scale search infrastructure (real-time indexing, serving, and data pipelines) with strict latency and reliability requirements.
• Go deep into search internals (indexing, query execution, and relevance) and 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, and contribute to incident postmortems with a high bar.

Skills

Large-scale infrastructure

Distributed systems

Rust

C++

JVM-based languages

Elasticsearch

Lucene

Performance optimization

Incident management

Tools

Open-source contributions

Job description

SpaceXAI is seeking a Backend Engineer to design and build scalable, high-performance systems powering subscriptions, monetized products, and creator monetization. You will work on mission-critical infrastructure handling millions of transactions and enabling creators to earn revenue through their content.

Key work includes optimizing search infrastructure, real-time data pipelines, and end-to-end production operations.