Software Engineer II - Delivery Search

Company: Uber

Location: San Francisco, CA

Type: Full-time

Level: Junior

Posted: 2026-02-24

About this role

About The Role
We are seeking talented Senior Software Engineers to join our Engineering team, supporting Search Engineering efforts. In this role, you will play a key part in designing and optimizing backend infrastructure, enabling real-time and batch data processing to enhance search retrieval, ranking, and product experiences. You will work closely with BE and ML engineers, data scientists, and product teams to build robust, scalable, and high-performance data systems that power personalized user experiences.


What You'll Do

  • Develop serving infrastructure to enhance system latency, throughput, and reliability
  • Enhance search relevance by improving indexing, retrieval, and ranking mechanisms.
  • Develop and optimize search algorithms, ranking models, and query processing techniques.
  • Implement and maintain scalable search pipelines and distributed indexing systems.
  • Work with machine learning engineers to integrate AI-driven search ranking and personalization models.
  • Analyze search performance metrics and run A/B experiments to measure improvements.
  • Optimize latency, throughput, and scalability of search infrastructure.
  • Contribute to system design and architecture decisions to improve search quality and efficiency.
  • Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code in Go, Python or Java.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance search relevance and user experience.
  • Monitor and troubleshoot search-related production issues to ensure system reliability.

Basic Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience in software engineering
  • Expertise in big data technologies such as Apache Spark, Kafka, Flink, Airflow, Presto, or Snowflake.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Familiarity with search retrieval, ranking techniques, query understanding, and text processing.
  • Hands-on experience with search technologies such as Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Solr, or Vespa.
  • Strong experience with search and recommendation systems, working with Elast...

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