Senior Software Engineer (Sitecore Search)

Dublin - Ireland

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 20 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Description

About Us:

At Sitecore our mission is to simplify how brands reach engage and serve people by delivering intelligent personalised digital experiences that connect the world. We empower the worlds most iconic brands to build lifelong relationships with their customersseamlessly smartly and at scale.

As the leading provider of agentic digital experience software Sitecore brings together content commerce and data into one composable platform that enables brands to deliver millions of meaningful adaptive experiences every day. Trusted by global leaders such as American Express Porsche Starbucks and LOréal Sitecore helps brands transform engagement through experiences that are not only personalised but predictive and dynamic.

Our foundation is our peoplea diverse passionate and collaborative global team spanning over 25 countries. We believe that every experience matters and that belief starts with how we work together.Our valuesguide how we lead innovate and connect. They are the behaviours that bring our mission and vision to life every day in every interaction.

As we continue to evolve we are actively cultivating AI skills across our teams to unlock new levels of creativity efficiency and insight. From engineering to customer experience AI capabilities are becoming integral to how we design build and deliver the next generation of digital experiences.

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About the Role:

Were looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help build and operate high-impact backend systems that power intelligent data-driven digital experiences at scale. Sitecore Searchwas built to offer marketers a unified delivery system that serves hyper-relevant content through AI-powered search.Our team simplifies complex platform capabilities into reliable reusable services in a cloud-native multi-tenant environment.

We operate in an AI-driven engineering environment and expect you to use copilots and agentic workflows to accelerate delivery while keeping the bar high for correctness security and maintainability. This is not vibe coding. We want someone who can ship without AI and also knows how to steer it effectively.

Youll have real influence over architecture decisions and platform direction not just execute on tickets. Youll work in a team thats genuinely investing in AI-assisted engineering not just talking about it. We value open debate evidence-based decisions and a collaborative environment where ideas are challenged constructively.

What Youll Do:

Solve problems autonomously: proactively reach out to other teams stakeholders and subject-matter experts to gather information and unblock yourself.

Collaborate with product owners and cross-functional teams to define requirements influence platform direction and architect solutions to complex challenges.

Contribute to architectural discussions: evaluate design patterns propose solutions constructively challenge ideas and help the team find the best fit following established best practices.

Design build and maintain Go services in a cloud-native multi-tenant environment.

Build shared libraries SDKs and internal tooling that make it easier for other teams to integrate with and operate platform services.

Evolve and optimize our cloud-based platform balancing relevance latency resilience and cost.

Build resilient observable systems with proper timeouts retries/backoff caching rate limiting SLOs and safe rollout patterns.

Lead code reviews provide technical mentorship and raise the teams engineering bar.

Leverage AI tools (copilots agents) to accelerate coding testing and debugging with strong verification habits and help shape team-level best practices for AI-assisted workflows.

What You Need to Succeed:

Core Engineering

5 years of professional software engineering experience (or equivalent senior-level impact).

Strong backend skills in Go orother languages (e.g. Java Python TypeScript) in a polyglot environment

Experience building and running distributed systems in production (microservices event-driven architectures failure modes).

Solid cloud-native experience (Azure or another major cloud provider) with Kubernetes identity/secrets management networking and CI/CD.

Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform Pulumi or similar).

Strong debugging and incident skills: can diagnose issues from logs metrics and traces end-to-end.

AI-Native Engineering

Comfortable using LLM tools and agents in daily work (scaffolding refactoring test generation) without sacrificing quality.

Strong verification mindset: treats AI output as untrusted until validated via tests reviews benchmarks and security checks.

Skilled at context engineering: can package high-signal context to reliably steer models.

Interest in emerging approaches (agents MCP-style tool use structured workflows) and ability to evaluate them pragmatically.

Additional Skills That Could Set You Apart:

Hands-on experience with search engines (Elasticsearch Solr Lucene Azure AI Search or similar) including index design and relevance tuning.

Experience with vector search embeddings or semantic retrieval techniques.

Experience with distributed NoSQL databases (Cosmos DB or similar) including partitioning and throughput tuning.

What Success Looks Like

You ship reliable features to production with strong test coverage and clear operational signals.

You proactively improve performance reduce cost and increase resilience across the platform.

You raise the teams bar on AI usage: faster delivery and fewer regressions through better workflows and verification.

You mentor others and improve the system not just the code.

Why You Should Click Apply:

Sales and Customer Success are the key to our success! We are tapping into an exciting $30B market opportunity that is still very much in its infancy and feel its never been a better time to join Sitecore as we look to grow by 30% YoY. Growth for us means growth for you and your career.
Great team and company culture! You can find out more about our company culture in the Sales and Customer Success team and our commitment to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace on our YouTube Channel. Thanks to the work of every employee globally Sitecore has been recognised for award-winning Culture by Comparably.

Equal Opportunities at Sitecore

Sitecore is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity without unlawful regard to race colour ancestry religion gender national origin sexual orientation age citizenship marital status disability veteran status or any other local legally protected characteristic.

Required Experience:

Senior IC

DescriptionAbout Us:At Sitecore our mission is to simplify how brands reach engage and serve people by delivering intelligent personalised digital experiences that connect the world. We empower the worlds most iconic brands to build lifelong relationships with their customersseamlessly smartly and a...