Software Architect, Search

Description

Search at Salesforce is embarking on a transformative journey to evolve our architecture to operate on elastic compute environments, containerize our deployments and judiciously extract Search Relevance and other Intelligence functionality into multiplexed microservices to be used across various search applications.We are seeking a fearless technologist, a compassionate leader and a passionate software engineer who has tons of experience designing, developing, debugging, and operating resilient distributed systems that run across thousands of compute nodes in multiple datacenters. You ideally have solved similar problems before and your solutions are powering the internet today somewhere! You have experience balancing feature delivery, service ownership and retirement of technical debt. You're agile and capable of driving and delivering thin slices of endtoend functionality on a regular cadence with datadriven feedback loops.Of course, it helps if you have already lived and flourished in the innards of a large web scale search engine before. You are an information retrieval aficionado who has also led massive scale lucene/SOLR/Elastic/inhouse search engine deployments. You are ideally a thought leader on search implementation and large scale elastic deployment of complex software systems, have a penchant for machine learning and embedding algorithmic solutions in the search stack. You get excited about software performance, uptime, and high availability.Finally, you have exceptional communication skills that let you thrive in working with and across product and engineering leadership as well as business executives. You are equally passionate about mentoring junior members of the team to become successful architects themselves.Responsibilities Guide evolution of our search architecture into modular, componentized microservices as applicable. Guide embracing elasticity into our extensive Search system built on SOLR. Work closely with Principal architects across Salesforce to develop containerized deployment solution for search. Help extend Lucene/SOLR functionality to support specific customer use cases on the Saleforce search platform. Help devise and implement machine learnt algorithmic solutions for search ranking, query and document understanding, spell correction etc on our SOLR based search stack. Automate, optimize and drive efficiency of effort, code, and process. Lead the discussions on Search Architecture and large technical initiatives with other Architects in the org. Be the custodian of Technical Architecture of our solutions. Be the inhouse knowledge bank on Search concepts, techniques, industry developments and architectures. Help devise and implement machine learnt algorithmic solutions for search ranking, query and document understanding, spell correction etc on our SOLR based search stack. Represent Salesforce in technical industry conferences and symposiums on Search, Distributed systems and Big Data. Drive a culture of quality, technical curiosity, continuous improvement, and evidencebased decision making in the organization. Resolve complex technical issues and drive innovations that improve system availability, resilience, and performance. Create, maintain and share technical documentation used by engineers and other team members. Provide mentorship to other team members and partner with other SMEs across the organization