Senior Staff Engineer at Bloomreach

Setup: Remote - India
Type: Full-time
Level: Principal
Posted: Jan 21, 2026

Description

Bloomreach is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer for their AI Search team to lead the architecture and evolution of their search platform. The role involves shaping technical direction, mentoring engineers, and hands-on work with large-scale distributed search systems. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in search relevance, ranking, and query understanding, with a focus on delivering scalable, low-latency solutions in cloud environments.

Required Skills

Backend
Distributed Systems
Search Systems
Information Retrieval
Search Relevance
Ranking
Query Understanding
System Design
Java
Python
Cloud Environments
AWS
GCP

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: 8-12+ years of professional software engineering experience, with deep expertise in backend and distributed systems.
Strong, hands-on experience building large-scale Search or Information Retrieval systems.
Deep expertise in search relevance, ranking, and query/catalog understanding.
Proven experience designing and operating distributed, low-latency systems at scale.
Preferred Qualifications: Hands-on experience with Apache Solr, Lucene, or Elasticsearch.
Experience with vector search, embeddings, or semantic retrieval.
Familiarity with search evaluation, offline metrics, and A/B experimentation.
Experience with big data or streaming systems (Spark, Kafka, Hadoop).
Prior experience building enterprise-scale, customer-facing platforms.

About Bloomreach

Bloomreach

software platform for digital commerce experiences501-1000

We unify real-time customer and product data so businesses understand what customers really want. By connecting that understanding to every channel, the ecommerce experience becomes limitless, continuously reflecting a changing customer as they shop. With the scale of AI, this creates endless new paths to purchase, greater profitability, and fast business growth.