Engineering Manager - Search (Consumer, Global Discovery)

As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a squad responsible for one of the foundational search components of our customer search experience.

Lead & Grow a High-Performing Squad

• Own team health, engagement, and inclusion, ensuring every engineer has growth opportunities and clear career paths.

• Develop engineers through regular 1:1s, structured feedback, clear expectations, and performance management.

• Hire and onboard talent with strong backend and search infrastructure skills, while contributing to domain-wide recruiting efforts.

Own Technical and Delivery Outcomes

• Experience delivering Conversational Search or LLM-powered search interfaces.

• Lead your team in delivering high-quality, maintainable services in a Java 

• Ensure reliable sprint execution, proactive risk management, and transparent stakeholder communication. Manage cross-squad dependencies.

Drive Operational Excellence

• Maintain the reliability of services through robust monitoring, alerting, and incident response. 

• Ensure on-call readiness, runbooks, and blameless post-mortems are part of the squad's culture.

• Continuously improve delivery and operational health: cycle time, deployment frequency, safe reindexing rollouts, and relevance regression detection.

Partner with Product & Data Science to Deliver Impact

• Translate product discovery goals and relevance targets into actionable engineering work with clear priorities.

• Collaborate with Data Science on experiments and A/B tests to measure relevance improvements (MRR, NDCG, click-through rates).

• Keep the squad aligned with business objectives and user value—ensuring improvements translate into measurable customer impact.