Senior Software Engineer - AI and Search Team
Redis
Who we are
We're Redis. We built the product that runs the fast apps our world runs on. (If you checked the weather, used your credit card, or looked at your flight status online today, you’re welcome.) At Redis, you’ll work with the fastest, simplest technology in the business—whether you’re building it, telling its story, or selling it to our 10,000+ worldwide customers. We’re creating a faster world with simpler experiences. You in?
Who We Are
At Redis, we built the product that runs the fast apps our world relies on. Whether you're checking the weather, using your credit card, or tracking a flight, Redis is there. We offer the fastest, simplest technology in the business - whether you're building it, telling its story, or selling it to our 10,000+ worldwide customers. We're creating a faster world with simpler experiences. Join us!
Why You'll Love This Role
This is a unique opportunity to shape Redis capabilities to the AI age early in the cycle.
Join the core Redis Search team to solve AI’s hottest problems including state-of-the-art indexing, vector/hybrid retrieval, and latency-critical serving at global scale. You’ll take features from research to production, improving latency, recall, and cost for millions of developers.
What You'll Do
- Design, implement and optimize core Information Retrieval algorithms, fast indexing and matching.
Investigate complex real-world issues at Internet scale - Implement hardware-specific optimizations (e.g.: SIMD, SSD, GPU, CUDA)
- Partner with Redis Core/Cloud/Support, leading the fastest NoSQL databases in the world
- Lead designs, mentor peers, set benchmarks, and build a reputation internally and in the community
What Will You Need to Have
- 7+ years building databases, search engines, or high-perf distributed/storage systems
- Experience across vector/IR search and systems (storage or distributed), with depth in at least one
Proficiency in C/C++ or Rust, including concurrency, memory safety, and performance optimizations - Ability to think strategically, define the technical design and work breakdown, and influence architectural decisions
- Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Related Field
- Experience with NoSQL databases (especially Redis).
- Experience developing for popular OSS projects.
- Experience developing high-performance multithreaded applications.
- Experience working on distributed applications.
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