Staff Software Engineer — Search Platform, Ingestion & Indexing

Job description

This posting is for proactive recruitment purposes and may be used to fill current openings or future vacancies within our organization. Overview of the Role: Advanced Content Engineering (ACE) is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to serve as the technical anchor for the search platform’s ingestion and indexing systems. The platform processes millions of documents across TR’s legal, tax, and professional content corpora — parsing, chunking, enriching, embedding, and indexing them into a hybrid search engine that powers both human-facing search interfaces and autonomous AI agents. Getting this pipeline right, at scale, with zero-downtime operations and increasingly agentic retrieval patterns, is one of the platform’s most consequential engineering challenges. This role owns the design, implementation, and operational health of the document ingestion pipeline and search index management systems — from the Kafka-based streaming infrastructure that moves documents through processing stages, to the Vespa application architecture that stores and serves them. Staff Engineers on this team define, build, test, deploy, scale, and operate what they ship — full-stack ownership is not a princip...