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Sr. Engineer, Discovery
Vimeo
New York, NY, United States
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Looking for videos of “purple-maned unicorns” or “the toad mafia” or “Vimeo Staff Picks”? So are millions of other Vimeans out there. Come join Vimeo’s Discovery team and help improve Search for the coolest video site around.
The Discovery team at Vimeo is responsible for: Search, Recommendations, Feed, Notifications and other similar products that are crucial in making navigation, exploration, and discovery of content as easy and awesome as possible. We work hard to help users find what they want and content they would be interested in. We are data and customer driven, our engineers work closely with the Product team to help define and articulate a vision for our products. Basically, we focus on providing simple and elegant solutions for discovering fresh and relevant content to keep the Vimeo audience interested.
What you’ll do:
• Be responsible for building our innovative search platform that will be seen and used by millions of users everyday
• Design and architect components with focus on performance and scalability of distributed services and systems and underlying search engine(s)
• Ensure high availability of the platforms through systems and infrastructure engineering
• Implement advanced search features such as language detection, spell check, auto suggest/correct, and more
• Continually improve and enhance search quality and web search infrastructure and performance
• Partner with product managers to refine and prioritize requirements, estimate and scope work, and time releases
• Write clean, portable, and well-documented code
What we're expecting:
• 3+ years experience building and distributing web apps in a product-driven environment
• Strong experience with Elasticsearch, Apache Solr or Lucene
• Mastery of at least one server-side language such as PHP, Python, Go or Java
• Experience with or interest in the Hadoop stack
• Practical experience with machine learning and information retrieval
• Experience with distributed systems
• Understanding of IO issues, disk and network
• Knowledge and experience of monitoring tools
• BS or MS in Computer Science or related field, or comparable experience
Bonus points:
• Strong portfolio or public code (Github, Bitbucket, etc.)
About us:
Vimeo’s mission is to empower creators to make, share and sell amazing videos directly to viewers worldwide, in the highest quality possible and with no interruptive advertising. Vimeo is home to the world’s leading video creators and the hundreds of millions of viewers who love them. We’d love to welcome you to both our team, and our community.
Founded in 2004 and based in New York City, Vimeo, Inc is an operating business of IAC (NASDAQ: IACI).