Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GoDaddy empowers entrepreneurs by providing tools and services to start, grow, and manage their businesses online. The Staff Software Engineer will provide technical leadership for large-scale search infrastructure, building intelligent, personalized domain search and recommendation experiences while guiding architecture, cross-functional initiatives, and engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Architect and evolve large-scale search infrastructure that powers domain discovery for millions of customers, designing distributed indexing, retrieval, ranking, and recommendation systems that deliver high performance, scalability, and reliability
- Build intelligent search experiences by developing relevance, personalization, and recommendation capabilities that leverage customer intent, behavioral signals, machine learning models, and modern AI technologies to improve search quality and conversion
- Lead technical strategy and architectural decisions across search services, APIs, data platforms, and cloud-native systems, influencing engineering direction across multiple teams and products
- Engineer highly scalable backend services and distributed systems in AWS, solving complex challenges involving latency, availability, fault tolerance, observability, and operational efficiency at global scale
- Write high-quality production code, drive adoption of modern engineering practices, mentor other engineers, and lead the delivery of complex technical initiatives from design through production while continuously raising the organization's technical bar
Skills
- * 8+ years building and operating large-scale distributed software systems in production environments
- * Expert knowledge of search technologies, information retrieval, ranking systems, recommendation platforms, or related domains
- * Strong software engineering fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, system design, and software architecture
- * Deep experience with cloud-native development, microservices, APIs, and AWS-based infrastructure
- * Advanced proficiency in Java, Go, C#, or similar object-oriented programming languages
- * Experience integrating machine learning models into customer-facing production systems
- * Demonstrated ability to lead technical strategy and architecture across multiple teams
- * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- * Experience with Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Solr, Lucene, Vespa, or similar search technologies
- * Experience building recommendation systems, personalization platforms, or ML-powered customer experiences
- * Knowledge of semantic search, vector databases, embeddings, LLM-powered retrieval, or agentic AI systems
- * Experience with Kafka, Spark, Flink, or large-scale real-time and batch data processing platforms
- * Experience utilizing AI-powered engineering tools to improve software development and delivery
Benefits
- Competitive pay
- Generous time off
- Parental and wellness leave
- Healthcare
- Retirement savings program
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k)-retirement plan
- Paid sick time
- Paid flexible time off
- Paid parental leave
- Life insurance
- Short- and long-term disability
- AD&D insurance
- Mental health or EAP programs
- Remote or hybrid work options
- Paid holidays
- Paid Wellness days
- Tuition assistance
- Adoption benefits
- Surrogacy benefits
- Fertility benefits
- Dependent daycare and backup care benefits
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Financial education and advice
- Corporate bonus, subject to the terms of applicable plans and individual eligibility
- Equity awards, subject to the terms of applicable plans and individual eligibility
- Employee Resource Groups
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