Head of Search

Responsibilities:

Within one month, you will…

• Take responsibility for a distributed, FAANG-bar team of roughly a dozen engineers, and lead them as a front-line manager while we become the Google of Code Search. Your organization will grow as the company grows.
• Work closely with other Engineering department heads on cross-functional initiatives that touch Search in some way. 

Within three months, you will…

• Identify any gaps you see in the Engineering org and help address them in an appropriate way, bringing prior experience to bear in recommending and driving solutions.
• Build a variety of systems, many of which are systems that you yourself may already know we need, and are not listed here. A few examples include a search quality measurement and reporting system, a custom model training pipeline for ML-based code search, and a set of reference architectures for running global ranking computations on the most common enterprise topologies (e.g. spark, k8s, hadoop).

Within six months, you will…

• Champion customer engagement in all phases of design, development and deployment. 

Within one year, you will…

• Have hired and retained exceptional people to make our team even more representative of the world’s population.
• Collaborate with product and engineering leadership to develop the next set of ambitious goals that your org should work towards.
• Develop a clear technical and execution strategy to achieve that next set of goals.

Qualifications:

• You have at least 4 years of management experience and 5 years of hands-on coding experience.
• You have relevant domain knowledge and experience in one or more of the following areas: search, indexing, information retrieval, relevance.
• You have led engineering teams and have held a high technical bar for teammates as well as yourself.

Nice to haves:

• You have worked with search quality
• You have experience with machine learning