Senior Software Engineer, Meilisearch

• Excellent collaboration skills with developers across disciplines
• Ability to balance technical depth with strategic thinking
• Comfortable making tough technical decisions and aligning stakeholders
• Adaptable and able to thrive in ambiguous situations
• Flexible mindset, willing to tackle problems outside your initial scope
• Hard skills
• Must-have:
• Significant experience as a backend and/or infrastructure engineer
• Strong knowledge of Ruby on Rails and cloud infrastructure (K8s, AWS, Terraform)
• Familiarity with performance optimization and scalability challenges
• Ability to contribute occasionally to frontend code (React, TypeScript)
• Interest in learning the basics of Rust and understanding the Meilisearch engine’s architecture

Desirable

• In order to ensure Meilisearch continues to scale efficiently while maintaining top performance and cost stability, we are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Scale Team
• At Meilisearch, the Scale Team is responsible for tackling the scalability challenges of our product and infrastructure
• Our success metrics are uptime, search latency, indexing speed (time to search), and infrastructure cost stability
• You will report directly to the Head of Engineering and collaborate closely with other backend, infrastructure, and engine engineers
• Scalability & Performance
• Designing, implementing and maintaining scalable solutions to support our growing customer base and evolving support needs
• Continuously improving search latency and indexing speed by working in collaboration with the engine developers
• Optimizing infrastructure costs while maintaining performance
• Building and maintaining monitoring and visibility tools to track key performance indicators
• Incident Management & Operations
• Participate in on-call rotation and lead incident response when technical issues arise
• Drive post-incident reviews and implement improvements to prevent future occurrences
• Adaptability & Fast Iteration
• Actively contributing to the team’s processes and collaboration to continuously improve our velocity and delivery
• Diving into the Meilisearch engine’s internals (including learning some Rust) to identify improvements in our global system
• Occasionally contributing to frontend improvements (React + TypeScript) when needed
• As any Meilisearch member
• Promoting the easy-to-use mindset: contributing to developer experience discussions about the Engine API and Cloud interface
• Sharing your knowledge and bringing visibility around your work for technical and non-technical teams