Senior Engineering Manager Search Retrieval (Consumer, Global Discovery)

We are on the lookout for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Search Retrieval Domain within Global Discovery. This domain builds and operates the Tier-1 systems that power customer search across all our brandssystems that must remain highly available low-latency and globally scalable.

This is a pivotal leadership role where you will manage multiple squads and engineering managers guide long-term technical strategy and ensure that our retrieval stack evolves into a world-class platform. If you are passionate about distributed search systems leading autonomous teams and shaping the future of how millions of customers discover what they need every day we want to hear from you.

In this role you will

• Lead the domain responsible for the foundational components of our customer search experience.

• Lead & Scale the Domain: Manage and mentor engineering managers and senior ICs across three or more squads. Establish a strong delegation framework so decisions happen closest to the context. Build a durable second layer of leadership and attract top engineering talent.

• Own Tier-1 Search Services: Lead squads responsible for our core retrieval servicesensuring global scalability low latency and high availability. Drive architectural evolution from legacy systems toward modern retrieval and indexing paradigms.

• Drive Technical & Operational Excellence: Define monitor and improve domain-level SLOs and SLAs. Ensure best-in-class on-call practices incident response and post-mortem culture. Champion engineering rigor and ensure practices are documented lived and continuously improved.

• Shape the Long-term Domain Vision: Translate tribe-level objectives into a clear technical roadmap for the retrieval domain. Balance feature development with reliability cost efficiency and modernization initiatives. Stay informed on cutting-edge developments in search technologies and identify opportunities to adopt them.

• Partner Across Product & Engineering: Collaborate with Product to shape long-term search strategy and investment. Coordinate cross-team initiatives and work with other domain leaders to ensure seamless integration across the Search and Discovery ecosystem.

Qualifications :

• Proven architectural excellence and deep leadership experience.

• M2 Leadership Experience: You have several years of experience leading multiple squads through managers. You know how to scale teams develop leaders and operate autonomously at domain level while aligning with tribe strategy.

• Search & Retrieval Expertise: Deep understanding of search internals: indexing retrieval query processing ranking vector search caching and distributed search architectures. Youve worked with technologies such as Elasticsearch Lucene Solr OpenSearch or custom retrieval engines.

• Building at Scale: A proven track record of operating or building Tier-1 highly available distributed systems. You understand performance tuning system bottlenecks concurrency management and global scale operations.

• Technical Strategy & Operational Mastery: Experience defining technical roadmaps evolving architectures and driving engineering practices. You use delivery metrics and operational KPIs (latency error rates availability) to steer and improve teams.

• Strong Product & Stakeholder Alignment: Skilled at partnering with Product to translate business priorities into feasible engineering plans. Able to influence across domains manage expectations and communicate complex trade-offs clearly.

Additional Information :

Ensuring you and all our Heroes are looked after happy and healthy is always on the menu. Because if youre in good shape then were in good shape.

• Make the most of our hybrid working model and join the team for face-to-face connection and collaboration in our beautiful Berlin campus 2 days a week

• We offer 27 days holiday with an extra day on 2nd and 3rd year of service

• We will support you in developing yourself and your career growth opportunities: 1.000 Educational Budget Language Courses Parental Support and access to the Udemy Business platform to explore a variety of online courses.

• Get moving and release those wonderful mind-boosting endorphins: Health Checkups Meditation Yoga Gym & Bicycle Subsidy

• Cash. Dough. Cheddar. Whatever you call it well help you with it: Employee Share Purchase Plan Sabbatical Bank  Public Transportation Ticket Discount Life & Accident Insurance Corporate Pension Plan

• The power of getting together over some food is unrivaled. Here are a few ways to help you do that. All the yum: Digital Meal Vouchers Food Vouchers Corporate Discounts. Courses.

Ready to join our team If youre excited to grow collaborate and be part of the worlds leading delivery platform wed love to hear from you. Apply today!

We believe diversity and inclusion are key to creating not only an exciting product but also an amazing customer and employee experience. Fostering this starts with hiring - therefore we do not discriminate on the basis of racial identities religious beliefs color national origin gender identities or expressions sexual orientations age marital or disability statuses or any other aspect that makes you you.

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time