Senior Search & Content Engineer - Scale & Personalize

Socket.dev; New York (NY); On-site; USD 155,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental &amp

Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)

Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary &

Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick &

Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)

Short Term & Long Term Disability

Free Food & Snacks in office

Wellness Resources

Job summary

Socket.dev's Senior Search & Content Engineer builds and improves the systems that help shoppers find the right product across Articore's marketplaces, Redbubble and TeePublic. This role designs, ships and maintains search, ranking and content-quality services across a catalogue of billions of products, where small gains in relevance translate into traffic and revenue.

Working with product, data scientists and engineers across regions, this senior contributor shapes technical direction, mentors

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years hands-on with search or information retrieval systems.
• Demonstrated ability to improve search relevance at scale — including ranking, query analysis, and evaluation frameworks.
• Strong proficiency in at least one backend language (Python, Java, Scala, or Go) and comfort working across data pipelines and APIs.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot and resolve issues in a complex, high-traffic production environment.
• Clear written communication and genuine comfort working asynchronously with colleagues across multiple time zones.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the search, ranking and discovery services that return relevant results at marketplace scale.
• Improve relevance and personalisation by developing, testing and measuring ranking changes, running experiments and reporting results against agreed success measures.
• Develop content-quality systems that classify, enrich and moderate catalogue data so search results and category pages stay accurate and trustworthy.
• Partner with product management, data science and SEO specialists to translate business priorities into a clear, sequenced technical plan.
• Own the reliability of the team's systems, including monitoring, alerting, performance tuning and incident response for services customers depend on continuously.
• Lead technical design for significant pieces of work, producing proposals that others can review, challenge and build against.
• Mentor engineers through code review, pairing and technical guidance, with focus on building search depth across newer regions.
• Apply artificial intelligence (AI) tooling in day-to-day engineering work, and evaluate where ML models can improve discovery while staying mindful of limits.
• Break complex work into well-defined tasks that colleagues in other time zones can pick up and progress without waiting for a handover.

Skills

5+ years software eng

Search/retrieval experience

Backend language proficiency

Troubleshooting in production

Written asynchronous communication

Job description

Socket.dev's Senior Search & Content Engineer builds and improves the systems that help shoppers find the right product across Articore's marketplaces, Redbubble and TeePublic. This role designs, ships and maintains search, ranking and content-quality services across a catalogue of billions of products, where small gains in relevance translate into traffic and revenue.

Working with product, data scientists and engineers across regions, this senior contributor shapes technical direction, mentors