We are seeking a Senior Engineer with strong experience in search technologies such as Apache Solr, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, or similar to design, build, and optimize scalable search solutions.

The role focuses on improving search performance, relevancy, and indexing pipelines in a cloud-based environment. This role includes ownership of search relevance across both traditional keyword-based and modern semantic (vector-based) retrieval.

Key Responsibilities

- Design, build, and maintain search platforms.
- Optimize search relevancy, ranking, and query performance.
- Build and manage indexing pipelines for large datasets.
- Deploy and operate services in a cloud environment (AWS).
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams on search and recommendation features.
- Explore and implement ML-driven enhancements for search.

Search & Relevance

- Support and implement both keyword-based and semantic (vector-based) search capabilities
- Work on vector-based search capabilities within the platform
- Measure and improve search relevance using evaluation metrics and experimentation
- Implement ranking optimization,



including learning-to-rank (LTR)

Platform Operations

- Support and evolve existing Solr-based production search system (SolrCloud), including scaling, sharding, and replication
- Establish monitoring, SLOs, runbooks, and participate in incident response and root cause analysis
- Work with containerized and cloud-native environments, including Kubernetes-based deployments and operations.
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and operational best practices for search services.

Required Skills

- Strong experience with search technologies (Solr preffered, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, or similar) with solid foundational understanding of search concepts and systems
- Experience with AWS cloud services and modern deployment practices.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, containerized platforms, and CI/CD tooling is strongly preferred.

Must Have Skills:

- Amazon Web Services
- Java
- Kubernetes
- Search Engine Optimization
- Search Engines
- Solr

📌 Senior Search Engineer (México)
🏢 Pyramid Consulting
📍 México