Senior Staff Agentic Search Infrastructure Engineer - Moveworks

Job summary

The Senior Staff Engineer for Agentic Search Infrastructure is responsible for leading the design and development of critical search infrastructure components that support AI agents. Key responsibilities include driving the architecture of indexing systems, managing ingestion pipelines, and ensuring high-performance retrieval experiences across diverse enterprise data sources using technologies such as Lucene, Elasticsearch, and AI-driven search capabilities.

Benefits

Qualifications

• 8-12+ years of experience in large-scale distributed systems
• Hands-on experience with search technologies like Lucene and Elasticsearch
• Experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale
• Experience with vector search and AI-driven search capabilities
• Proven track record of leading complex technical initiatives
• Ability to balance technical depth with operational excellence

Responsibilities

• Lead design and development of search infrastructure components
• Drive technical strategy and architectural decisions
• Serve as technical authority for search lifecycle
• Design and operate large-scale hybrid indexing architectures
• Establish clean abstractions and interfaces
• Drive innovations to improve search quality and efficiency
• Architect high-throughput ingestion and enrichment pipelines
• Define strategies for content parsing and metadata enrichment
• Lead evolution of indexing and retrieval systems
• Contribute to enterprise knowledge graph capabilities
• Own key platform metrics for search performance
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship

Skills

Degrees

Relocation