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Staff Software Engineer, VenturaOS - Content Discovery & Search
$137K–$252K
Bellevue +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 2026
- Location
- Bellevue
Seattle
About the job
Own the design, implementation, and optimization of content discovery and search systems for Ventura TV OS cloud services.
What you'll do
- Partner with application teams to build and scale discovery and search features.
- Process and understand content to improve personalization and relevance.
- Build and manage low-latency search systems for large content catalogs, including indexing and query performance.
What they ask for
- Track record of significant, self-directed, end-to-end contributions to large software projects.
- Understanding of engineering fundamentals and ability to evaluate and adapt solutions from first principles.
- Hands-on experience with distributed data processing, data indexing, and building ML inference and re-training frameworks.
Nice to have
- Experience with OpenSearch or Elasticsearch, including ranking, relevance tuning, and search quality evaluation.
- Experience with recommendation systems, Apache Spark, or Databricks.
Pay
$137,300—$251,800 USD (base salary)
Tools
TypeScript, Java, Python, Aerospike, PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, Apache Spark
AI focus
Build ML inference and re-training frameworks and improve content personalization and recommendations.
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