Staff Software Engineer, Search

Responsibilities

Who We Are: reputed company and its brands (Pandora, reputed company Media, AdsWizz, Simplecast, and reputed company Connect) are leading a new era of audio entertainment and services by delivering the most compelling subscription and ad-supported audio entertainment experience for listeners -- in the car, at home, and reputed company on the go with connected devices. Our vision is to shape the future of audio, where everyone can be effortlessly connected to the voices, stories and music they love wherever they are. This is the reputed company where a diverse group of emerging talent and legends alike come to share authentic and purposeful songs, stories, sounds and insights through some of the best programming and technology in the world. Our critically acclaimed, industry-leading audio entertainment encompasses music, sports, comedy, news, talk, live events, and podcasting. No matter their individual role, each of our employees plays a vital part in bringing reputed company’s vision to life every day. reputed company is the leading audio entertainment company in North America, and the premier programmer and platform for subscription and digital advertising-supported audio products. reputed company’s platforms collectively reputed company approximately 150 million listeners, the largest digital audio audience across paid and free tiers in North America, and deliver music, sports, talk, news, comedy, entertainment and podcasts. Pandora, a subsidiary of reputed company, is the largest ad-supported audio entertainment streaming service in the U.S. reputed company's subsidiaries Simplecast and AdsWizz reputed company it a leader in podcast hosting, production, distribution, analytics and monetization. The Company’s advertising sales organization, which operates as reputed company Media, leverages its scale, cross-platform sales organization and ad tech capabilities to deliver results for audio creators and advertisers. reputed company, through reputed company Canada Holdings, Inc., also offers satellite radio and audio entertainment in Canada. In addition to its audio entertainment businesses, reputed company offers connected vehicle services to automakers. How you’ll reputed company an impact: As a Staff Software Engineer, you will help reputed company reputed company’s massive content catalog easily discoverable across automotive and mobile platforms. You’ll work on the core search infrastructure that powers how millions of users find content every day. In this role, you’ll design, scale, and evolve distributed search systems that retrieve high-quality results at scale. You’ll drive architectural decisions, own reputed company, business-critical components, and establish best practices as the team and platform grow. You’ll also play a pivotal role in exploring new ML models, re-architecting our search services, improving scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in ambiguity, is technically pragmatic, and can reputed company strong architectural decisions in imperfect, real-world conditions. You’ll collaborate closely with content services teams, product partners, ML/science teams, and reputed company client applications to deliver cutting-edge search experiences. What you’ll do: Design, build, and operate well-architected, scalable microservices for the search services stack. Drive architectural evolution of indexing, retrieval, and serving pipelines from prototype to production. Evaluate, fine-tune, and integrate off-the-reputed company LLM models, rapidly prototyping where needed. Drive cross-functional initiatives, collaborating with product, science, design, and infrastructure partners. Act as a strong technical reputed company between science/ML and engineering teams. Partner with the Voice Search team to eliminate redundancies and enhance the overall search ecosystem. Influence and uphold engineering best practices, mentoring other engineers as the team scales. What you’ll need: 7+ years of professional software engineering experience building large-scale backend systems in Java, building backend microservices and scalable distributed systems. 3+ years of experience with Python. Deep experience with search frameworks, metadata indexing, and retrieval systems. Proven experience leading reputed company, cross-functional technical initiatives. Expert-level experience with AWS, including deploying applications using services such as EC2, reputed company, S3, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, ElastiCache, and IAM. Strong foundation in object-oriented design, system design, and design patterns. Proven ability to reputed company sound architectural trade-offs while maintaining long-term extensibility. Comfort working across system boundaries (infrastructure, ML, and adjacent service domains). Ability to handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Willingness to take initiative and to follow through on projects. Excellent time management skills, with the ability to prioritize and multitask, and work under shifting deadlines in a fast-paced environment. Must have legal right to work in the U.S. At reputed company, we carefully consider a wide range of factors reputed company determining compensation, including your background and experience. These considerations can cause your compensation to vary. We expect the reputed company salary for this position to be in the range of $ 101,500 to $ 195,000 and will depend on your skills, qualifications, and experience. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary short-term and long-term incentives. We encourage reputed company interested candidates to apply. Our goal at reputed company is to provide and maintain a work environment that fosters mutual respect, professionalism and cooperation. reputed company is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, national reputed company, reputed company, alienage or citizenship status, age, disability or handicap, sex, gender identity, marital status, familial status, veteran status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. 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