Staff Search Engineer (all genders) - Elasticsearch
Staff Search Engineer (all genders) - Elasticsearch
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Anstellungsdetails
Permanent Contract Full-or Part-Time Remote or Cologne / Dsseldorf / Darmstadt / Berlin
Info
Who we are
We operate the international online marketplaces of Kaufland: Several thousand sellers and millions of products make us one of the fastest growing online marketplaces. Ours is a dynamic corporate culture that merges a start-up mentality with the opportunities offered by a large corporation. We combine knowledge and many years of experience in e-commerce with flat hierarchies and a highly motivated team.
We love flexibility! We offer you the best environment to work in a flexible and focussed way: You get to decide whether you want to work in one of our offices in Cologne // Darmstadt // Dsseldorf but also have the opportunity to work remotely (within Germany) and choose the best of both. We want to offer you the most attractive workplace in e-commerce and maximum flexibility for your personal work-life balance.
Day by day our development team of about 400 experts pursues the goal of creating the best possible customer shopping experience for our online marketplace. To enrich the lives of our customers we collaborate in cross-functional teams. Learn about how they are structured and more details about our product areas here: tasks this is what awaits you in detail
- As a Staff Search Engineer (all genders) - Elasticsearch your goal is to bring our search to the next level for our customers
- Improving our relevance: Writing faster queries improving data quality of ingested data and by making decisions on better vs. worse relevancy - you understand our searches inside out to make and share informed decisions
- Enriching our ingestion architecture: Consuming change events updating Elasticsearch mappings and indexing into new fields ensuring we are able to index into a single document from multiple sources
- Efficient integration: We are not alone in a huge stack like this - this can be enhanced by better mapping faster retrieval of recently changed data or adding a field so we can boost our searches more efficiently
- Data modelling: Understanding its implications and effects on indexing and querying
- Performance enhancement: You are always on the lookout keeping our search speed as fast as possible
- Safety first: With everything you touch and design you keep resiliency in mind as a key theme in a microservice environment. You know what circuit breakers and bulk heads are and only use caches when they make sense. You favour exponential backoff over CrashLoopBackoff - a lot!
- Our team tech stack consists of Kubernetes gRPC Typescript the latest major version Elasticsearch a bit of MongoDB Kafka and last but not least we are using DataDog for monitoring
Profil
Your profile this is what we expect from you
- You know how a (distributed) search engine works and have gained experience with one of the more well known search engines in the market
- You bring the skills to run monitor debug and operate our Elasticsearch cluster and applications and always write well tested and reviewed code
- You dont believe you know: You do not guess and are well equipped with tangible facts and figures we run A/B tests for validation and expect you to come up with proper metrics of success and failure for a search feature
- You are curious about the latest developments in tech and the search space in general (semantic search NLP LLMs vectors hybrid search machine learning are all on our roadmap especially with performance in mind)
- Were a team and do not appreciate a bus factor of 1: You have the desire to help others share your knowledge and mentor others
- You are willing to go the extra mile to make your team successful you give honest feedback able to discuss commit and execute
- You have excellent written and spoken English skills
Benefits
What we offer
- Create your own work-life balance: You have the flexibility to choose between working remotely (within Germany) or from one of our locations in Cologne Darmstadt Dsseldorf or our co-working space in Berlin!
- Do you want to move to Germany No problem we offer you an attractive relocation package to give you a smooth start.
- Urban Sports Club and RSG Group Fitness Studios: Get top deals for fitness swimming yoga and more
- Mental Well-Being: We support you on your well-being journey with special offerings such as Instahelp the digital platform for online psychological counseling
- Vacation & Sabbatical: Enjoy 30 days of vacation per year and the opportunity to take a sabbatical once you have been part of the team for a certain period!
Option for Pluxee restaurant vouchers: Buy Pluxee vouchers through us and benefit from tax-advantaged meal allowances! - Deutschlandticket: We subsidise your train season ticket for more mobility
- Corporate Benefits: We offer you attractive discounts with top brands
- Free choice of operating system: MacOS or Ubuntu Linux its up to you
- Boost your growth: Benefit from our online language learning programs diverse in-house training and our automated 360-degree feedback. We cover the costs for relevant conferences training opportunities and approved team workshops to strengthen personal interactions
- This is who we are: Our dynamic culture combines flat hierarchies a start-up mentality an international team of over 65 nationalities and the strength of the Schwarz Group to provide you an agile and secure working environment
We are team players: From day one you will connect not only with your team but also with others through our digital onboarding journey the buddy program and regular team and company events all-hands meetings powerful mornings and much more!
Check out our Principles & our blog for even more insights into our company culture!
Diversity at Kaufland e-commerce
We welcome applications from everyone regardless of skin colour sexual orientation gender identity age disability ethnic origin religion and ideology. We are signatories to the Charta der Vielfalt (German Diversity Charter) because we know that extraordinary things can only be achieved with diversity.
Bewerben
Why are you the perfect fit for this position
Dont bother with cover letters - were interested in facts and figures!
How would you like to be addressed
Feel free to add the following pronouns she/her him/he or they/them optionally (e.g. after your name) in your CV.
As we have very international teams we would highly appreciate it to receive your CV or profile link in English.
Ansprechpartner
Your contact person: Kristina Heymann
Kaufland e-commerce Services GmbH & Co. KG
Postal address:
Habsburgerring 2
50674 Kln
We are looking forward to your application!
Employment Type
Full Time
