Senior Software Engineer II Backend AI Search

AI is one of the fastest growing product areas in Seismic. We believe that AI particularly Generative AI will empower and transform how Enterprise sales and marketing organizationsoperateand interact with customers. Seismic Aura our leading AI engine is powering this change in the sales enablement space and is being infused across the Seismic enablement cloud. Our focus is toleverageAI across the Seismic platform to make our customers more productive and efficient in their day-to-day tasks and to drive more successful sales outcomes.

As a Senior Software Engineer II - AI Search you will play a crucial role in developing andoptimizingbackendsystems that power our web application including search content discovery and AI capabilities. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design build andmaintainscalable high-performance systems that deliver exceptional value to our customers. This position offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on our companys growth and success by contributing to the technical excellence and innovation of our search solutions.

• Experience: 7 years of experience in software engineering and a proven track record of building and scaling microservices and working with data retrieval systems.

• Technical Expertise:
  • 5Experience with C# unit testing object-oriented programming andweb services.
  • 3Experiencewith Pythonwith the ability to work concurrently on Python repositories.
  • 3 Experience with Redisincludingexpertisein managing large-scale Redis clusters
  • 2ExperiencewithPostgreSQL includingmaintainingand performing tuning
  • Proficient in Test Driven Development (TDD) with hands-on experience usingxUnitand Postman to develop automation test scripts.
  • ExperiencewithInfrastructure as Code (TerraformPulumi etc.)
  • Experience withEvent driven architectures with tools like Kafka
  • Experienced in container technologies such as Docker and proficient in microservice frameworks like Kubernetes (K8s)
  • Experienced in Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) withexpertisein developing Jenkins pipelines using Scala.
  • Experience withDDD (Domain driven development) orfeaturetoggle(Launch Darkly) is good to have.
  • NewRelic Snowflake Ansible Ninjia2 experience is a plus
  • Front-end/full stack experience a plus.

• Cloud Expertise: Experience with cloud platforms like AWS Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Microsoft Azure. Knowledge of cloud-native services for AI/ML data storageand processing. Experience deploying containerized applications into Kubernetes is a plus.
  • Good to have: Search/retrieval/AI:Preferexpertisein search platforms likeElasticSearch ApacheSolr or similar. Experience with Natural Language Processing (NLP) semantic search and understanding of text processing techniquesis a plus.
  • SaaS Knowledge: Extensive experience in SaaS application development and cloud technologies with a deep understanding of modern distributedsystemand cloud operational infrastructure.
  • Product Development: Experience in collaborating with product management and design with the ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions that drive successful record of driving feature development from concept to launch.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with teams across different regions.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with the China team and adapt to the Chinatimezoneis essential
• Scrum and JIRAexperience a plus

• Education: Bachelors orMasters degree in Computer Science Engineering ora relatedfield.

• Fast-paced Environment: Experience working in a fast-paced dynamic environment preferably in a SaaS or technology-driven company.

• Distributed Systems Development:Design develop and maintain backend systems and services for search functionality ensuring high performance scalability and reliability.
• Search & Algorithm Optimization:Implement and optimize search and AI-driven semantic algorithms indexing and information retrieval techniques to enhance search accuracy and efficiency.
• Integration:Collaborate with data scientists AI engineers and product teams to integrate AI-driven search capabilities across the Seismic platform.
• Performance Tuning:Monitor and optimize search performance addressing bottlenecks and ensuring low-latency query responses.
• Technical Leadership:Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers promoting best practices in search backend development.
• Collaboration:Work closely with cross-functional and geographically distributed teams including product managers frontend engineers and UX designers to deliver seamless and intuitive search experiences.
• Continuous Improvement:Stay updated with the latest trends and advancements in search technologies conducting research and experimentation to drive innovation.

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Headquartered in San Diego and with employees across the globe Seismic is the global leader in salesenablement backed by firms such as Permira Ameriprise Financial EDBI Lightspeed Venture Partners and T. Rowe Price. Seismic also expanded its team and product portfolio with the strategic acquisitions of SAVO Percolate Grapevine6 and Lessonly. Our board of directors is composed of several industry luminaries including John Thompson former Chairman of the Board for Microsoft.

Seismic is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender age race religion or any other classification which is protected by applicable law.

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