\nTumblr launched in 2007 with the belief that people need a place to say what they want, be who they want, and connect over what they love. We continue to build out Tumblr as a platform for free expression, individuality, and human connection. A key part of fostering an ecosystem of free expression is getting the right content in front of the audience who is most interested in it.\n\nTumblr’s Search Team is looking for a motivated and independent engineer who is excited to develop and maintain our search infrastructure to surface the best content from billions of posts (videos, GIFs, memes, etc) and give users control to sort, filter, and explore it.. You’ll have the ability to influence the content included in thousands of sessions per second, and will solve problems pertaining to the retrieval, ranking, filtering, and personalization of content viewed on Tumblr through  mobile applications and on the website. Help us make social media a beautiful experience.\nTHE ROLE\n\nEngineers at Automattic are responsible for the engines of Automattic: a variety of codebases and systems devoted to making the web a better place.\n\nIn this role, you’ll likely:\n\n\nDeploy high-performance distributed systems for search and discovery across billions of posts.\n\n\n\n\n\nIterate on the systems powering Tumblr’s Search and Dashboards with a constant eye on improving the user experience.\n\n\n\n\n\nExplore and implement new signals and features to improve content quality and relevancy.\n\n\n\n\n\nLaunch A/B tests and perform analysis to validate hypotheses, and build tools to enable continuous experimentation.\n\n\n\n\n\nBuild out new content datasets using Elasticsearch, Hadoop, Kafka, Druid, Flink and/or Spark.\n\n\n\n\n\nMaintain a fleet of Elasticsearch servers via Kubernetes to keep the search and discovery services running and performing well.\n\n\n\n\n\nContinuously improve and evolve our approaches to search quality and relevance.\n\n\n\n\n\nWork closely with our Systems and SRE teams to craft and maintain architectures that support efficient development and deployment of your ideas.\n\n\n\nWe are looking for:\n\n\nExperience deploying,maintaining  and scaling production search systems.\n\n\n\n\n\nExperience with Elasticsearch, Solr, or Lucene.\n\n\n\n\n\nProficiency in PHP, Java, and/or Scala; deep knowledge in Information Retrieval, and/or algorithms.\n\n\n\n\n\nFamiliarity with Hadoop and MapReduce, including frameworks such as Spark.\n\n\n\n\n\nDesirable / nice to have: Experience in Airflow, Kafka, Flink\n\n\n\n\n\nA desire to build a safe and inspiring search experience for our users and a passion to help everyone express their true selves, regardless of their income, gender, race, politics, language, or where they live in the world.\n\n\n\n\n\nExcitement to join a globally distributed team. Familiarity with remote work is welcome.\n\n\n\nSome tools we use:\n\n\nPHP, Java, Scala, Python, Golang \n\n\n\n\n\nElasticsearch, Lucene \n\n\n\n\n\nHadoop, Spark, Flink, Kafka\n\n\n\n\n\nKubernetes, Airflow\n\n\n\n\n\nMySQL, Memcached, Redis\n\n\n\nHere are some areas in which you can grow and have further impact in the future at the company:\n\n\nLeadership – we offer a variety of leadership options to those who have interest, including becoming a team lead and managing releases.\n\n\n\n\n\nLearning and development – we have a generous personal development budget and encourage you to grow your skills through courses, books and conferences.\n\n\n\n\n\nArchitecture – we encourage developers to develop expertise in the systems they work with, guide their evolution and mentor other developers working on them.\n\n\n\n\n\nEngineering effectiveness – we believe in helping other developers become more effective through tools, practices, cross-team collaborations, and process improvements.\n\n\n\nHow do we work?\n\n\nWe’re kind to each other and our users – we strive to build a positive, supportive, and inclusive culture of cohesive teams focused on delivering value to our customers.\n\n\n\n\n\nWe work as a global and distributed workforce resulting in a unique way of working built around our creed. \n\n\n\n\n\nWe offer flexible work arrangements allowing our team members to work when they feel best.\n\n\n\n\n\nWe open-source! We’re cool with open-sourcing everything except passwords, or secret keys.\n\n\n\n\n\nWe ship often, deploying many times daily with the help of peer code review, continuous integration, and our global workforce in over 70 countries.\n\n\n\n\n\nWe welcome collaboration, and you can be involved in any discussion across our many communication channels.\n\n\n\n\nCurious who works in engineering at Automattic? Meet our JavaScript Engineers – Lena and Riad! \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Sales, SaaS, Jira, DevOps, Cloud, Engineer, Digital Nomad, Marketing, Design, Medical, Salesforce, Ads, Mobile, Education, Analyst, Admin, Microsoft, Senior, JavaScript and Elasticsearch jobs that are similar:\n\n $65,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n