Founding Senior Data Engineer, Domains Search
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Job Location:
New York City, NY - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 128500 - 231500
Posted on:
14 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
The Domains Search team at Squarespace is building the next generation of intelligent search experiences for helping customers find the perfect domain. From leveraging large language models to generate creative domain suggestions to building scalable ranking and personalization systems our team sits at the intersection of applied machine learning natural language processing and large-scale search & recommendation infrastructure.
Were looking for a Data Engineer to build the data foundation that powers our search and ML systems. You will report to the Engineering Manager of the Domains Search team in our New York City headquarters.
Why Join Us
This is a unique opportunity to shape a greenfield ML initiative at Squarespace. As part of a small high-impact team youll have influence over how we build our search platform and how millions of customers discover their online identity. If youve wanted to build a next generation of search system with few legacy constraints wed love to hear from you.
Youll Get To...
- Build and own the data pipelines that power our search system: corpus ingestion processing enrichment and index refresh.
- Design and maintain feature pipelines for ML models partnering with our Ranking MLE on feature engineering and computation.
- Own the embedding pipeline infrastructure to run our models at scale.
- Integrate with and extend feature store infrastructure to serve features at training and inference time.
- Establish data quality monitoring validation and alerting across the search data stack.
- Partner with Machine Learning Engineering on index refresh strategies and schema evolution.
- Collaborate with Data Science to ensure clean reliable data for experimentation and offline evaluation.
- Make pragmatic infrastructure decisions. Youll adopt existing systems where they fit and build new ones where they dont.
Who Were Looking For
- 6 years of professional experience in data engineering including 2-3 years supporting ML or search systems.
- Experience building and operating batch and streaming data pipelines at scale on a major cloud platform (AWS GCP or Azure). Background in low-latency data systems is a strong plus.
- Strong SQL skills with modern data tooling (Spark Airflow dbt or similar).
- Familiarity with ML infrastructure such as feature stores vector databases embedding pipelines and ideally search systems (Elasticsearch Solr Vespa or similar)
- Data ownership to drive quality end-to-end including schema design validation monitoring and debugging.
Benefits & Perks
- A choice between medical plans with an option for 100% covered premiums including medical dental and vision
- Supplemental Life and Disability Insurance plans
- Fertility and adoption benefits
- Headspace mindfulness app subscription
- Global Employee Assistance Program
- Retirement benefits with employer match
- Flexible paid time off
- 12 weeks paid parental leave and family care leave
- Pretax commuter benefit
- Education reimbursement
- Employee donation match to community organizations
- 8 Global Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
- Dog-friendly workplace
- Free lunch and snacks
- Private rooftop
- Hack week twice per year
Cash Compensation Range: $128500 - $231500 USD
The base salary for this position will vary based on job-related criteria including relevant skills experience and location among other factors.
In addition to the cash compensation above (which includes base salary and where applicable for eligible roles may include overtime pay) Squarespace employees are eligible to be granted an option to purchase our common stock. Sales positions generally offer a competitive On Target Earnings (OTE) incentive structure in addition to base salary.
About Squarespace
Squarespace is a design-driven platform helping entrepreneurs build brands and businesses online. We empower millions of customers in more than 200 countries and territories with all the tools they need to create an online presence build an audience monetize and scale their business. Our suite of products range from websites domains ecommerce and marketing tools as well as tools for scheduling with Acuity and creating and managing social media presence with Bio Sites and Unfold. Our team of more than 1700 is headquartered in New York City with offices in Dublin Ireland and Aveiro Portugal. For more information about our company visit Commitment Today more than a million people around the globe use Squarespace to share different perspectives and experiences with the world. Not only do we embrace and celebrate the diversity of our customers but we also work toward the same in our employees. At Squarespace we are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race color ethnicity ancestry religion national origin gender sex gender identity or expression sexual orientation age citizenship marital or parental status disability veteran status or other class protected by applicable law. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. #LI-Hybrid Thank you in advance for providing the following details about your work history from your resume! This helps us ensure that your candidate information is accurate and consistent during the hiring process. Squarespace will never solicit your personal banking information or ask you to transfer money in connection with a job offer or interview. We also will not reach out to you via phone or SMS without your permission or knowledge.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Keyword Research
- Web Content
- CSS
- URL
- Link Building
- Database
- Semrush
- Search Results
- HTML
- Client Relationships
- JavaScript
- Client Websites
- On Page optimization
- Technical Reports
- Analytics
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