Software Engineer, Search

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 experience with AWS.
• Strong foundation in object-oriented design, system design, and design patterns.
• Proven ability to make sound architectural trade-offs while maintaining long-term extensibility.
• Comfort working across system boundaries.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Willingness to take initiative and to follow through on projects.
• Excellent time management skills, with the ability to prioritize and multitask, and work under shifting deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Must have legal right to work in the U.S.

At Sirius

XM, we carefully consider a wide range of factors when determining compensation, including your background and experience. The base salary for this position is in the range of $101,500 to $195,000 and may also be eligible for discretionary short-term and long-term incentives.

Sirius

XM is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, alienage or citizenship status, age, disability or handicap, sex, gender identity, marital status, familial status, veteran status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

The requirements and duties described above may be modified or waived by the company in its sole discretion without notice.