Hiring: Senior Software Developer, Search Company: MaintainX Location: San Francisco, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 12:34:40 Target Skills & Keywords : Data Pipeline, Elasticsearch, LLM, OpenSearch, Shell, Solr About the job Required Skills: •Design and build MaintainX’s end-to-end search and retrieval platform — from indexing pipelines and ranking systems to AI-facing query layers. •Partner with product and domain experts to model search across core entities like work orders, assets, and procedures, ensuring high-relevance results. •Ship fast, iterate fast, launch early versions, gather feedback, and improve rapidly. •Operate and optimize distributed systems, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability under real-world load. •Drive architectural decisions, balancing correctness, performance, and long-term maintainability. •Own integrations between search systems and upstream data sources. •Explore semantic search, vector retrieval, and AI-enhanced relevance using modern ML tooling. •On-call duties (currently business hours) Qualifications: •Hands-on experience designing, building, and operating production-grade search systems end-to-end — including indexing, query execution, relevance tuning, and infrastructure — using technologies such as Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Lucene, Solr, or similar. •Understanding of embeddings, chunking, and retrieval strategies. •Operational familiarity with search-specific tuning: analyzers, BM25, shard sizing, cluster health, and relevance optimization. •Comfort taking systems from implementation to deployment and production operation, working across backend services, data pipelines, and integration points as needed. •An expert level of English, both spoken and written, is required, as the individual will need to lead platform engineering managers across multiple teams, present technical priorities to executive stakeholders, and align with engineering leaders outside Québec on a daily basis. •Comfortable using modern AI tools like GPT, Copilot, or Cursor to boost productivity and streamline development. •Understanding of multi-tenancy and data security, including ACLs, field-level access controls, and secure index partitioning. •Factories, fleets, hospitals and campuses stay up because the people who maintain them have tools worth using. That is what we build. •We take pride in a culture where everyone can thrive. More at autodesk.com/company/global-belonging. More on where this is going: Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost on building the future of connected operations, and AOS SVP Stephen Hooper on welcoming MaintainX to Autodesk. Compensation: •$143,000 - $248,600 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!