Software Engineer

The Software Engineer will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to design and maintain architectures that support efficient development and deployment of new features and optimizations.

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Day-to-day job duties include:

• Enhance Tumblr’s Search and Dashboards, implementing new signals and features, and building scalable data solutions to enhance content relevance and user experience;
• Explore and implement new signals and features to improve content quality and relevancy; Launch A/B tests and perform analysis to validate hypotheses, and build tools to enable continuous experimentation;
• Build out new content datasets using Elasticsearch, Hadoop, Kafka, Druid, Flink and/or Spark;
• Maintain and optimize a fleet of Elasticsearch servers via Kubernetes to ensure search and discovery services operate efficiently; and
• Continuously improve and refine search quality and relevance.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

• Requires at minimum a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field or foreign equivalent followed by 2 years of Progressively responsible experience in a software engineering role.

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Experience must include:

• Two (2) years experience deploying, maintaining, and scaling production search systems;
• Two (2) years experience with Elasticsearch, Solr, or Lucene;
• Two (2) years experience in PHP, Java and/or Scala;
• Two (2) years experience in Information Retrieval and/or algorithms;
• At least one (1) year of experience with Hadoop and MapReduce, including frameworks such as Spark; and
• At least one (1) year of experience in Airflow, Kafka, or Flink.