Software Engineer

POSITION DUTIES: Responsible for developing and optimizing high-performance distributed systems that power search and discovery across billions of Tumblr posts.

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.

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.

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.

Role permits full-time telecommuting from anywhere in the U.S. Position requires less than 24% (i.e., not more than several days) of incidental travel to various  

locations for team building and business strategization a few times per year. Travel may be within the U.S. or internationally.

RATE OF PAY: $210,000- $275,000/year   

SCHEDULE: M-F, 8 hours/day, 40 hours/week   

ADDRESS OF EMPLOYMENT: 632 Broadway, New York, NY 10012 #LI-DNI

About Automattic

Now in our 20th year, we’re the people behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Tumblr, Simplenote, Jetpack, Longreads, Day One, PocketCasts, Beeper, and more. We believe in making the web a better place.

We’re a distributed company with more than 1400 Automatticians in nearly every corner of the globe, speaking over a hundred different languages. Enriched by this diversity, we’re united by a singular mission: to democratize publishing, commerce, and messaging so anyone with a story can tell it, anyone with a product can sell it, and everyone can manage their communications from a single source. In short, we help maintain a balance in society, creating and continually refining powerful tools people can use to compete fairly—regardless of income, gender, politics, language, or where they live in the world.

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