Staff Software Engineer — Search Platform, API & Infrastructure

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 lead the design and delivery of the search platform’s control-plane API and cloud infrastructure. The platform’s core promise is self-service: internal client teams must be able to create a search system, configure an ingestion topology, promote a new index to production, and monitor system health — entirely through APIs — without requiring direct involvement from the platform team. Building, operating, and continuously improving that self-service experience is the heart of this role. This is a high-ownership, high-leverage position at the intersection of platform engineering, API design, and cloud infrastructure. Staff Engineers on this team define, build, test, deploy, scale, and operate what they ship — full-stack ownership is the baseline, not a bonus. Delivery friction is treated as an urgent engineering problem: the team ships to production constantly, AI-assisted development is the norm, and removing obstacles to fast, safe delivery is everyone’...