Software Engineer
Automattic
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $210,000 - $275,000 per year
Job Level
JuniorMid-Level
Tech Stack
AirflowDistributed SystemsElasticSearchHadoopJavaKafkaKubernetesMapReducePHPScalaSpark
About the role
- Responsible for developing and optimizing high-performance distributed systems that power search and discovery across billions of Tumblr posts
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to design and maintain architectures that support efficient development and deployment of new features and optimizations
- Enhance Tumblr’s Search and Dashboards, implementing new signals and features, and building scalable data solutions to enhance content relevance and user experience
- Explore and implement new signals and features to improve content quality and relevancy; Launch A/B tests and perform analysis to validate hypotheses, and build tools to enable continuous experimentation
- Build out new content datasets using Elasticsearch, Hadoop, Kafka, Druid, Flink and/or Spark
- Maintain and optimize a fleet of Elasticsearch servers via Kubernetes to ensure search and discovery services operate efficiently
- Continuously improve and refine search quality and relevance
Requirements
- Requires at minimum a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field or foreign equivalent
- Two (2) years experience deploying, maintaining, and scaling production search systems
- Two (2) years experience with Elasticsearch, Solr, or Lucene
- Two (2) years experience in PHP, Java and/or Scala
- Two (2) years experience in Information Retrieval and/or algorithms
- At least one (1) year of experience with Hadoop and MapReduce, including frameworks such as Spark
- At least one (1) year of experience in Airflow, Kafka, or Flink
Benefits
- Remote work options
- Team building activities
- Business strategization meetings
- Flexible work hours
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
ElasticsearchHadoopKafkaDruidFlinkSparkPHPJavaScalaInformation Retrieval
Soft skills
collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvinganalytical thinkingteamworkcreativityadaptabilityattention to detailcritical thinkingtime management
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in Engineeringrelated technical field degree