Senior Software Engineer (Python/Node)

Pluralsight

1d•$144,400 - $190,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Discovery serves as a fundamental pillar of our platform, enabling users to explore everything from specific queries to new content. Joining the Search Backend team as a Senior Software Engineer, you will be instrumental in ingesting and delivering content to a variety of platform experiences. Our team is looking for a driven, innovative engineer who is excited to lead experimentation for the Search algorithm and has extensive experience building stable, production-level products rooted in core engineering principles.

Requirements

Experience with information retrieval systems (e.g. Algolia, Elasticsearch)
Experience with various components of a search pipeline such as query understanding, matching, and relevance
Experience with streaming data (e.g. Kafka)
Ability to discuss complex topics with both technical and non-technical audiences.
8+ years of relevant experience, or 6+ years with an advanced degree. Equivalent practical experience will be considered.
Experience building software with Python, TypeScript (Node), and Postgres.
Experience designing and building public or shared APIs
Experience delivering software frequently, and building robust deployment pipelines.
Understanding and ability to navigate complex issues around application performance, reliability, scalability, security, and data integrity.
Demonstrated strong collaboration skills, being a trusted teammate, and skilled at resolving conflict.
Demonstrated skills of a high-proficiency, senior engineer through delivery but also mentorship of others.

Nice To Haves

Eager to tackle the complexities of a search backend, from content ingestion to optimizing core metrics through Algolia feature utilization and experimental testing.
Drives healthy team discussion, brings thought-provoking questions, and identifies pain points while still contributing to psychological safety.
Values the contributions of those around them, regularly provides valuable engineering leadership, and embraces opportunities to let other team members lead and make decisions.
Collaborates and decides on solutions with their team rather than dictating solutions.
Values finding ideal solutions that balance the technical needs of the system with the strategic needs of the business and facilitates discussions around trade-offs.
Energized by delivering to customers and inspires those around them.
Feels a pragmatic urgency around delivering value to customers and sees how engineering excellence unlocks the ability to deliver.

Responsibilities

Own Pluralsight’s Search backend system
Manage a system-critical, reliable, and scalable product - uptime and response time matter.
Work closely with the entire team (including Product, Design, Dev Ops, etc.) to build products with powerful impact.
Work as a team to design, implement, and analyze experiments.
Play a key role in the consumption and production of data across the platform, interfacing with many teams at Pluralsight.
Take part in the team’s on-call rotation, resolving alerts and taking ownership in implementing improvements.