Software Engineer, Search

Who We Are:

Sirius

XM and its brands (Pandora, Sirius

XM Media, Ads Wizz, Simplecast, and Sirius

XM Connect) are leading a new era of audio entertainment and services by delivering the most compelling subscription and ad‑supported audio entertainment experience for listeners -- in the car, at home, and anywhere on the go with connected devices. Our vision is to shape the future of audio, where everyone can be effortlessly connected to the voices, stories and music they love wherever they are.

This is the place where a diverse group of emerging talent and legends alike come to share authentic and purposeful songs, stories, sounds and insights through some of the best programming and technology in the world. Our critically acclaimed, industry‑leading audio entertainment encompasses music, sports, comedy, news, talk, live events, and podcasting. No matter their individual role, each of our employees plays a vital part in bringing Sirius

XM’s vision to life every day.

Sirius

XM is the leading audio entertainment company in North America, and the premier programmer and platform for subscription and digital advertising‑supported audio products. Sirius

XM’s platforms collectively reach approximately 150 million listeners, the largest digital audio audience across paid and free tiers in North America, and deliver music, sports, talk, news, comedy, entertainment and podcasts. Pandora, a subsidiary of Sirius

XM, is the largest ad‑supported audio entertainment streaming service in the U.S. Sirius

XM's subsidiaries Simplecast and Ads Wizz make it a leader in podcast hosting, production, distribution, analytics and monetization. The Company’s advertising sales organization, which operates as Sirius

XM Media, leverages its scale, cross‑platform sales organization and ad tech capabilities to deliver results for audio creators and advertisers. Sirius

XM, through Sirius

XM Canada Holdings, Inc., also offers satellite radio and audio entertainment in Canada. In addition to its audio entertainment businesses, Sirius

XM offers connected vehicle services to automakers.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will help make Sirius

XM’s massive content catalog easily discoverable across automotive and mobile platforms. You’ll work on the core search infrastructure that powers how millions of users find content every day. In this role, you’ll design, scale, and evolve distributed search systems that retrieve high‑quality results ’ll drive architectural decisions, own complex, business‑critical components, and establish best practices as the team and platform grow.

You’ll also play a pivotal role in exploring new ML models, re‑architecting our search services, improving scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in ambiguity, is technically pragmatic, and can make strong architectural decisions in imperfect, real‑world conditions. You’ll collaborate closely with content services teams, product partners, ML/science teams, and downstream client applications to deliver cutting‑edge search experiences.

• Design, build, and operate well‑architected, scalable microservices for the search services stack.

• Drive architectural evolution of indexing, retrieval, and serving pipelines from prototype to production.

• Evaluate, fine‑tune, and integrate off‑the‑shelf LLM models, rapidly prototyping where needed.

• Drive cross‑functional initiatives, collaborating with product, science, design, and infrastructure partners.

• Act as a strong technical bridge between science/ML and engineering teams.

• Partner with the Voice Search team to eliminate redundancies and enhance the overall search ecosystem.

• Influence and uphold engineering best practices, mentoring other engineers as the team scales.

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience building large‑scale backend systems in Java, building backend microservices and scalable distributed systems.

• 3+ years of experience with Python.

• Deep experience with search frameworks, metadata indexing, and retrieval systems.

• Proven experience leading complex, cross‑functional technical initiatives.

• Expert‑level…