Staff / Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Web Indexing)

Quick Facts

• Role: Staff / Senior ML Engineer (Web Indexing)

Description

Build and scale indexing infrastructure that powers web and image search. You will own both large-scale offline batch indexing and near-real-time indexing, focusing on architecture, scalability, reliability, and efficiency across billions of documents and images.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team building large-scale web and image indexing infrastructure

• Own architecture and execution for offline batch pipelines and near-real-time indexing systems

• Drive improvements in freshness, throughput, scalability, reliability, and efficiency

• Enable rapid experimentation for search quality and ML teams introducing new signals

• Partner with crawling, ranking, ML, storage, and serving teams to align on architecture and delivery milestones

• Represent the indexing organization in leadership reviews (strategy, progress, tradeoffs)

• Recruit and develop engineers, fostering ownership and technical excellence

Requirements

• Significant experience building large-scale distributed systems or data infrastructure

• Engineering management experience leading software teams

• Strong grasp of distributed systems, large-scale data processing, and storage

• Experience with distributed batch processing (MapReduce-style models)

• Track record leading multi-team technical initiatives and influencing without direct authority

• Strong communication skills with senior leadership

• BS in CS (or related) or equivalent experience

Benefits

• Cross-functional impact across search crawling, ranking, ML, retrieval, and infrastructure teams

• Opportunity to shape long-term indexing strategy and drive complex programs to completion