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We power the data infrastructure of the world’s most innovative enterprises. Backed by Vista Equity Partners and Goldman Sachs, our engineers are building what’s next with AI. Our platform lets businesses seamlessly store, access, protect, and unlock AI-driven insights from exploding volumes of unstructured file data. As an engineer here, you’ll help build AI-powered infrastructure trusted by 900+ global customers, including Dow, Mattel, and Autodesk.\nNasuni is headquartered in Boston, USA with offices in Cork-Ireland, London-UK and an India Innovation Center in Hyderabad India.. The company’s recent Annual Revenue is $160M and growing at 25% CAGR. \nWe have a hybrid work culture. 3 days a week working from the Hyderabad office during core working hours and 2 days working from home.\nPrincipal Search Engineer - Distributed Search & SaaS Platforms\nRole Overview\nNasuni is building the future of AI-powered enterprise file data infrastructure, and search is a foundational capability of that platform.\nAs a Principal Search Engineer, you will serve as the technical owner and architect of Nasuni’s distributed search and MCP SaaS platform. This role is designed for a senior individual contributor who thrives at the intersection of deep technical execution and long-term platform strategy.\nThis role is for engineers who want to design and operate mission-critical search systems at scale, influence platform direction, and mentor others without people management responsibilities.\nLevel & Scope Definition (Principal IC)\nAutonomy & Ownership\nOwns end-to-end technical design of Nasuni’s search platform\nMakes architectural decisions within the search domain\nOperates with minimal oversight once goals are aligned\nDecision-Making Authority\nTechnology selection, architecture patterns, performance strategies\nTradeoffs impacting scalability, reliability, and cost\nInfluences roadmap but does not own product prioritization\nImpact Radius\nCore SaaS platform used by 900+ enterprise customers\nMulti-tenant, petabyte-scale unstructured data\nCross-team influence across product and platform engineering\nCollaboration Model\nPartners closely with Product Management\nServes as technical escalation point for search-related initiatives\nMentors engineers through design reviews and code quality leadership\nKey Responsibilities\nArchitect and own the end-to-end search and MCP platform, including ingestion, indexing, query execution, and relevance tuning\nDefine and evolve scalable OpenSearch-based architectures for multi-tenant SaaS environments\nLead performance optimization efforts to meet strict SLOs for latency, throughput, and availability\nEstablish best practices for cluster management, observability, and incident response\nPartner with Product and Engineering leadership on multi-year technical roadmaps\nServe as the primary technical integration point between search and core product teams\nMentor and guide engineers through technical reviews and architectural decision-making\nQualifications\nMust-Have Qualifications\n10+ years of overall software engineering experience, with 7+ years focused on search systems\nHands-on experience with OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, or Solr in production environments\nProven ownership of large-scale, multi-tenant search platforms (terabytes of indexed data or more)\nDeep expertise in Java, including high-performance, low-latency services\nStrong understanding of distributed systems, fault tolerance, and data consistency\nExperience operating search systems in cloud environments (AWS and/or Azure)\nProduction experience with Kubernetes-based deployments\nPreferred Qualifications\nAdvanced relevance tuning experience (custom analyzers, tokenization, scoring models)\nExperience designing search ingestion pipelines for unstructured data\nOperational ownership of on-call, incident response, and reliability metrics\nWorking knowledge of Python for scripting, tooling, or data pipelines\nIdeal Experience\nExperience with Learning to Rank (LTR) or ML-based relevance models\nPrior ownership of a search platform serving hundreds of customers\nExperience modernizing or replacing legacy search architectures\nContributions to OpenSearch/Elasticsearch ecosystems or internal platform frameworks\nWhy Work at Nasuni - Hyderabad?\nAs part of our commitment to your well-being and growth, Nasuni offers competitive benefits designed to support every stage of your life and career:\nCompetitive compensation programs\nFlexible time off and leave policies\nComprehensive health and wellness coverage\nHybrid and flexible work arrangements\nEmployee referral and recognition programs\nProfessional development and learning support\nInclusive, collaborative team culture\nModern office spaces with team events and perks\nRetirement and statutory benefits as per Indian regulations\nTo all recruitment agencies: Nasuni does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our job boards, Nasuni employees or any other company location. Nasuni is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.\nNasuni is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and respectful workplace where every team member can thrive. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, caste, color, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, age, national origin, or any other status protected by applicable laws in India or the country of employment. We celebrate individuality and are committed to building a workplace that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. 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