Staff Engineer Search

Responsibilities:   

• Architect, implement, and optimize data infrastructure across structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data flows (e.g., OpenSearch, SQL engines, DynamoDB)
• Working on large-scale, enterprise API services involving multi-tenancy, machine learning, micro-services, and NoSQL infrastructure
• Building micro-service architecture using one or more cloud providers - AWS/Azure
• Design and scale multi-tenant data pipelines, ensuring performance, availability, and cost efficiency
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to define and implement high-performance APIs that integrate across services and databases
• Evaluate trade-offs between SQL/NoSQL choices for different product modules and build reusable abstractions
• Ensure that security, compliance, and observability are built into the core of all data workflows (encryption, RBAC, logging, metrics)
• Optimize resource utilization, indexing strategies, and compute/storage balance across AWS services (Lambda, S3, ECS, DynamoDB, OpenSearch)
• Partner with Product Eng and SRE teams to define resilience and disaster recovery strategies for all data systems
• Define and evangelize best practices around schema versioning, query optimization and data consistency
• Guide the team on data lifecycle management, including archival, retention, and access control policies
• Mentor other engineers on scalable systems design, clean architectural thinking, and performance tuning. 

 Requirements: 

• 10+ years of experience in backend or infrastructure engineering, with a focus on large-scale data systems.
• Proficiency in one or more of the programming languages - Nodejs and Python
• Proven experience working on large-scale, enterprise API services involving multi-tenancy, machine learning, micro-services, and NoSQL infrastructure
• Hands-on experience with technologies like PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, OpenSearch, S3, GraphDB and vector databases.
• Proficiency in building micro-service architecture using one or more cloud providers - AWS/Azure.
• Strong understanding of web and API standards such as HTTP, DNS, Caching, and CDN architectures
• Solid foundation in distributed systems, data partitioning, and consistency models.
• Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) and debugging production bottlenecks.
• Prior experience building multi-tenant systems with strict performance and isolation guarantees.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to influence cross-functional technical decisions. 

 Culture: 

• The Albert team uses an iterative/agile development methodology, and you will be a key contributor in the entire development cycle. 
• At Albert, we put a great deal of emphasis on collaboration and maintaining an open working environment - having great coworkers is one of the biggest determinants for enjoying your work, and we take our enjoyment of work very seriously 
• Your opinions matter. We are driven by technology and innovation, and we look to the smartest, most passionate people on the team as the source of ideas.

 Why Albert: 

• The product is loved and used by thousands of users. 
• Small team. Flexible hrs. Meet for collaboration, learning, and socializing. 
• Think differently. Challenge status Quo. Result oriented. 
• Global, Diverse & down to earth. 
• No micro-management. 
• Build software for a sustainable future. 
• Hiring based on Fundamentals, Attitude, diverse Thinking, and Experience.