Software Engineer II (Search & Data Infrastructure)

TL;DR

Software Engineer II (Search & Data Infrastructure): Building and maintaining high-scale information retrieval systems for Slack with an accent on indexing pipelines, Solr cluster management, and distributed data processing. Focus on integrating AI-driven workflows into infrastructure development and ensuring system reliability at massive scale.

Location: Must be based in Seattle, WA or Atlanta, GA

Company

hirify.global is a global leader in CRM and cloud-based software, powering Slack as a central hub for organizational knowledge and collaboration.

What you will do

• Design and develop scalable, resilient offline indexing pipelines for search infrastructure.
• Collaborate with product and ML teams to ship new features and ensure high availability of distributed search systems.
• Deploy, maintain, and optimize Solr clusters to ensure peak performance and reliability.
• Own team features end-to-end, proactively improving system health and engineering standards.
• Integrate AI agents into human workflows and maintain system context for reliable AI-assisted development.
• Triage and resolve production issues in partnership with operations teams.

Requirements

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience with search technologies like Solr, Elasticsearch, or Lucene.
• Proficiency in distributed data processing frameworks such as Spark, Hadoop, or EMR.
• Strong background in infrastructure tools like Kubernetes, Terraform, and cloud environments.
• Demonstrated AI-first approach to engineering with experience integrating AI tools into development workflows.
• Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals, distributed systems, and information retrieval.

Nice to have

• Professional experience with Java, Scala, or SQL.
• Knowledge of text mining, NLP, or natural language parsing.
• Experience with vector search, dense retrieval, or embedding-based approaches.
• Contributions to relevance tuning or ranking systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, diverse, and supportive team environment.
• Focus on continuous learning and daily improvement.
• Opportunity to work on foundational infrastructure for a globally used product.
• Emphasis on high-quality engineering standards and modern development practices.