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Senior Principal Software Engineer – Search
Bizi Digital
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • Montana • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $127,920 - $191,880 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
BigQueryCloudElasticSearchGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKubernetes
About the role
- Provides technical leadership and direction for enterprise search initiatives, ensuring scalable and reliable architecture
- Serves as a key contributor to architectural review boards, guiding technical decisions on search platforms and integrations
- Designs and implements search solutions with a focus on relevancy, ranking, and performance optimization
- Leads evaluation and adoption of search technologies, including SOLR, Elasticsearch, and OpenSearch
- Partners with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into precise, actionable technical designs
- Ensures alignment of search architecture with broader enterprise cloud strategies on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Mentors engineering teams on search best practices, Java development, and distributed data management
- Establishes standards for indexing, query optimization, and data pipelines to support predictive and personalized search experiences
- Conducts deep technical reviews to ensure precision, reliability, and scalability in search-related implementations
- Champions observability, performance monitoring, and continuous improvement in search services.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (Master’s preferred)
- 10–15 years of software engineering experience with a strong emphasis on search systems and distributed architectures
- Expert-level experience with SOLR and hands-on knowledge of Elasticsearch/OpenSearch
- Strong foundation in Java development and core software engineering principles
- Solid understanding of databases, data modeling, and large-scale indexing strategies
- Cloud expertise with GCP (Google Kubernetes Engine, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, etc.) for deploying and scaling search solutions
- Experience providing technical direction at the enterprise level, including architectural governance
- Detail-oriented, precise, and analytical mindset with strong problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work with senior engineers, architects, and business stakeholders.
Benefits
- Competitive Wages & Paid Time Off
- Stock Purchase Plan & 401k with Employer Contributions Starting Day One
- Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance with Optional Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Team Member Health/Wellbeing Programs
- Tuition Educational Assistance Programs
- Opportunities for Career Growth
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Hard skills
SOLRElasticsearchOpenSearchJavadata modelingindexing strategiescloud computingGoogle Cloud PlatformGoogle Kubernetes EngineBigQuery
Soft skills
technical leadershipproblem-solvingcommunicationcollaborationanalytical mindsetdetail-orientedmentoringarchitectural governanceperformance monitoringcontinuous improvement
