Senior Software Engineer - Data Search

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Software Engineer – Data Search based in Italy.

This is a senior engineering role focused on building and improving a large-scale creator search experience used by thousands of businesses worldwide. You’ll work across the full search stack, from data and indexing pipelines to retrieval, embeddings, ranking, relevance, and low-latency serving. The role combines distributed systems, multimodal data, vector search, and LLM-powered technologies to solve complex search problems at significant scale. You’ll work with hundreds of millions of profiles and billions of media files, turning messy, high-volume data into useful intelligence. You’ll have substantial autonomy and ownership, taking ambiguous product challenges from discovery through architecture, implementation, production, and measurement. You’ll collaborate closely with data, product, engineering, customers, and leadership teams in a fast-moving, async-first environment.