Expert Backend Engineer (Vespa Search Engine) - SRA Team

Shopee

Indonesia

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Job Description

Job Description:

Design, implement, and operate components of the search engine - indexing, query execution, ranking, or storage using C++
Improve indexing and retrieval performance: SIMD-friendly data layouts, cache-aware algorithms, lock contention
Extend vector search capabilities (HNSW and beyond) and integrate them cleanly with traditional inverted-index retrieval
Build tooling and automation that makes the team faster - capacity models, fault-injection tests, deployment checks, AI-assisted workflows
Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and on-call rotation

Requirements:

Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science
At least 5 years of full time backend development experience using C++
Experience working on a search engine, database, or storage system such as Vespa is preferred
Familiarity with vector search and ANN algorithms (HNSW, IVF, PQ).
Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, and systems. You can reason about cache behavior, memory layout, and concurrency..
Experience operating non-trivial services in production: profiling, debugging core dumps, reading flamegraphs, tracing distributed requests.
Comfortable working in a large existing codebase.
Strong written communication. You write design docs and PR descriptions that the next on-call can actually use.

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Job Type:

Permanent Job

Industry:

Internet /E-commerce

Employment Type:

Full time

About Company

ShopeeJob Source: careers.shopee.sg

Shopee Pte. Ltd. is a Singaporean multinational technology company that specialises in e-commerce. The company was launched in Singapore in 2015, before it expanded abroad. As of 2021, Shopee is considered the largest e-commerce platform in Southeast Asia with 343 million monthly visitors.

Job ID: 148292705

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