Senior Engineer, Search

Postman · Bengaluru, Karnataka, Indiasenior

In short

▸Ingeniero Senior enfocados en arquitectar y escalar el sistema de búsquedas de Postman.
▸Trabajas con datos masivos, relevancia de resultados y pipelines de procesamiento en tiempo real.
▸Destacan por liderar con visión técnica y productiva en un entorno con más de 45 millones de desarrolladores.

Proficiency in English is required for collaboration across global teams.

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What they ask for

✓6+ años de experiencia en backend con lenguajes como Python o JavaScript.
✓Experiencia con sistemas de búsqueda como Elasticsearch, Solr o OpenSearch.
✓Conocimiento en pipelines de datos_batch y streaming con Kafka, Kinesis o Lambdas.
✓Experiencia con motores de procesamiento como Spark, Flink o Ray.
✓Capacidad para liderar arquitectura end-to-end y guiar a otros ingenieros.
✓Mentalidad de producto con enfoque en experiencia del usuario y relevancia.

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PythonJavaScriptElasticsearchApache SolrOpenSearchApache KafkaAmazon KinesisAWS LambdaApache SparkApache Flink

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Who Are We? Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 45 million+ developers and 500,000 organizations, including 98% of the Fortune 500. Postman is helping developers and professionals across the globe build the API-first world by simplifying each step of the API lifecycle and streamlining collaboration—enabling users to create better APIs, faster. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Boston, New York, Austin, Tokyo, London, and Bangalore - where Postman was founded. Postman is privately held, with funding from Battery Ventures, BOND, Coatue, CRV, Insight Partners, and Nexus Venture Partners. Learn more at postman.com or connect with Postman on X via @getpostman. P.S: We highly recommend reading The "API-First World" graphic novel to understand the bigger picture and our vision at Postman. The Opportunity Search Team at Postman is responsible for enabling users to quickly find and get started with the APIs that they are looking for. Postman is growing at a rapid pace, and this manifests into an ever-increasing volume of data that users create and consume, within their teams and in the Public API Network. We focus on improving discovery and ease of consumption over this data. We are looking for a Senior Engineer with 6+ years of experience deep backend expertise on search and ETL systems and a strong product mindset, to lead core initiatives on our search platform. In this role, you'll work at the intersection of infrastructure, relevance, and developer experience—designing systems that power search across the platform. You’ll bring a bias for action, a strong backend foundation, and the curiosity to explore beyond traditional boundaries, including areas like high performance web services, high volume data pipelines, machine learning, and relevance tuning. What You'll Do • Own end to end architecture and roadmap of search platform consisting of distributed indexing pipelines, storage infra and high performance web servers. • Contribute to improving relevance of search results through signal engineering and better data models. • Keep the system performant and reliable to handle growing data volume and query traffic, while unblocking business requirements and managing risk. • Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders like Product Managers, Designers, as well as other teams to drive initiatives. • Uphold operational excellence in the team, showing a bias for action and user empathy. • Quickly build functional prototypes to solve internal and external use-cases. • Scale the technical abilities of engineers in the team and uphold quality through code reviews and mentorship. About You • You have 6+ years of experience building applications in high level programming languages - Javascript, Python, Java etc. We code primarily in Python and Javascript. • You have worked on customer facing search solutions and have hands-on experience with search systems like ElasticSearch/Apache Solr/OpenSearch. • Experience building systems to orchestrate batch and streaming pipelines using Apache Kafka, Kinesis, Lambdas. Knowledge of compute engine/data processing engine like Apache Spark/ Apache Flink/ Ray. <li data-renderer-s

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