[Remote] Staff Software Engineer, Search
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SiriusXM is a leading audio entertainment company in North America, delivering a diverse array of audio experiences through its various platforms. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will design and develop scalable search systems to enhance content discoverability across automotive and mobile platforms, collaborating with multiple teams to drive architectural decisions and improve overall system performance.
Responsibilities
- 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-shelf LLM models, rapidly prototyping where needed
- Drive cross-functional initiatives, collaborating with product, science, design, and infrastructure partners
- Act as a strong technical bridge 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
Skills
- 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 complex, cross-functional technical initiatives
- Expert-level experience with AWS, including deploying applications using services such as EC2, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, ElastiCache, and IAM
- Strong foundation in object-oriented design, system design, and design patterns
- Proven ability to make 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
Benefits
- This role might be eligible for discretionary short-term and long-term incentives
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