Who we are
We're building an ecosystem of digital products and services that power everyday life across the Middle Eastfast, scalable, and deeply customer-centric. Our mission is to deliver to every door every day. We want to redefine what technology can do in this region, and we're looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Search) who can help us move even faster.
noon's mission: Ring every doorbell, everyday.
About the role
Team noon has some of the fastest, smartest, and hardest-working people we've encountered. With a young, aggressive, and talented team, we're driving major missions forward.
As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Search for noon.com, our largest business, you will be responsible for the infrastructure and reliability of its search a giant repository of hundreds of millions of products that need to be searched within milliseconds, both via vector as well as traditional (BM25 & the likes) type of queries. You will be responsible for modeling decisions of our indexes, reliability, scaling rps per node and monitoring of our entire search stack.
What you'll do:
- Own what's running: join our team and take ownership of monitoring, diagnosing and reliability of our search clusters, deeply understand how our apps interact with our clusters and improve both latency & throughput of our search stack
- (Re)Design our search infrastructure for the future: with the impressive scale up of our seller / product base, our systems need to be re-thought to accommodate growth in the orders of magnitude
- Lead a tight-knit focused team: hire, lead and mentor a team whose sole focus is making sure that we could describe noon.coms search as fast, scalable and unbreakable
What you'll need:
- Expertise: extensive experience (5+ years preferred) in the infrastructure and internals of large-scale search engines (Elasticsearch/Lucene/OpenSearch/Solr).
- Production Focus: Experience working in high-scale, latency-sensitive environments.
- Architectural Ownership: The ability to scale out a large search index bound to grow 10x in the upcoming 24 months
- Platform Mindset: Experience with cloud-native infrastructure (GCP/GKE preferred) and modern observability stacks.
- Leadership: We value Individual Contributors who are ready to maintain a high personal output while stepping into people management, leading & mentoring other members of their team
Who will excel
- We're looking for people with high standards, who understand that hard work matters.
- You need to be relentlessly resourceful and operate with a deep bias for action.
- We need people with the courage to be fiercely original.
- noon is not for everyone; readiness to adapt, pivot, and learn is essential.
