Requirements

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
8 years of experience in software development.
5 years of experience building and developing infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.
5 years of experience testing, and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.

Nice to haves

Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization including technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
3 years of experience with GenAI techniques (e.g., LLMs, Multi-Modal, Large Vision Models) or with GenAI-related concepts (e.g., language modeling, computer vision).

Own the technical goal and architecture of the Vector Search Serving infrastructure. You will drive decisions that ensure the system can manage massive datasets and query volumes with low latency.
Maintain a presence by contributing to critical code paths, conducting high-quality code reviews, and authoring technical design documents.
Manage, mentor, and grow a team of software engineers.
Advocate reliability and service health. Oversee incident management processes, ensuring that customer issues are resolved effectively and that post-mortems lead to systemic improvements.
Act as the bridge between the technology and the user. Work to understand customer use cases and ensure the infrastructure evolves to meet their changing needs.

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