Senior Software Engineer, Search
HelsinkiCompetitive0 applicants
About this role
We're a global team of over 400 people, working together to push the boundaries of open-source technology and multi-cloud solutions. Our vision is to help developers, builders, and creators bring their ideas to life with speed and simplicity, by providing a cloud data platform that makes open-source databases, search, streaming, and application infrastructure easily accessible to everyone.
Responsibilities
- We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer dedicated to the core development of our Aiven for OpenSearch service. This role is a highly technical and strategic contributor position focused on the internal architecture, reliability, and evolution of our search offering.
- In this role, you will work on how we manage and tune OpenSearch at scale, while spearheading our transition into AI-optimized infrastructure. You will be a key driver of service availability and the technical lead for deploying next-generation hardware within our search clusters.
- What You'll DoAutonomic Systems: Design and implement new and improve existing automated management, self-healing recovery mechanisms, and performance-tuning logic for OpenSearch clusters.
- Next-Gen Infrastructure: Research, design, and deploy the first GPU-powered instances within the Aiven ecosystem to support intensive search and AI workloads.
- AI Node Development: Develop and integrate specialized AI node types to enhance OpenSearch's capability in handling modern machine learning tasks.
- Engineering Ownership: Own the health, reliability, and availability metrics of our OpenSearch platform.
- What We're Looking ForSearch Mastery: Deep technical knowledge of OpenSearch or Elasticsearch internals, particularly in resource management, indexing strategies, and query optimization.
- Reliability & Operations: A passion for building highly available, resilient distributed systems and a proven track record of solving complex operational challenges.
- Hardware: Interest or experience in hardware acceleration, specifically deploying and ma