Senior Search Engineer

Senior Search Engineer

Remote

(Competitive salary based on experience)

Progressive Technology Federal Systems, Inc. (PTFS) has been a leading enterprise Content Services Platform (eCSP) to Federal, Civilian and DoD agencies, has an opening for a Senior Search Engineer.

Duties:

The Search Engineer serves as the subject matter expert (SME) responsible for the design, development, and support of custom code and open-source components that power the Solr search engine. The Java-based code includes parsers, query parsers, publisher, consistency check, APIs, monitoring utilities, and XSLT transforms. The candidate will work with state-of-the-art technologies including Solr/SolrCloud, Lucene, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Linux, Groovy, Python, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, DevSecOps, Jenkins, Maven, GitLab, Nexus, Ansible, TDD, BDD, JMeter, and other open-source frameworks.

Skills qualifications:

• 7+ years as a Solr Search Engineer on enterprise-scale information retrieval systems.
• Hands-on experience installing, administering, upgrading, and tuning Solr on Linux in large, production environments.
• Proven work re-architecting and migrating leader-follower clusters to distributed SolrCloud.
• Deep experience indexing high-volume content and metadata into Solr.
• Strong background building and maintaining custom query parsers/request handlers on Lucene APIs.
• Strong experience building a Java-based search API layer with SolrJ.
• Expertise in query optimization, caching, and relevance tuning.
• Hands-on schema design and maintenance, including custom analyzers/tokenizers.
• Skilled at troubleshooting multi-tier systems on Linux, profiling Java applications, and tuning the JVM.
• Experience building custom parsers for unstructured and structured content using core Java, regular expressions and NLP.
• XML skills including JAXP parsing and XSLT/XPath transforms for indexing.
• Experience using a templating engine and dynamic language to decorate search results and extend Java API (for example, Groovy, Scala or Python).
• Monitoring experience with Prometheus and Grafana.
• DevOps experience with Git/GitLab, Jenkins, Maven, Ansible, and Nexus.
• Experience with TDD or BDD, test automation, and performance testing.
• Experience working in Agile teams (Scrum or Kanban).
• Strong written documentation skills.
• Must be eligible to obtain a Public Trust

Preferred qualifications:

• Docker and Kubernetes for containerized deployments and microservices.
• Microsoft Azure or AWS.
• Experience with machine learning, natural language processing, and vector search.

Education: A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science.

Benefits:

• 15 days paid time off per year
• 11 paid holidays per year
• Medical, Dental & Vision
• 401(k) Plan with matching
• Tuition assistance
• Disability insurance
• Gym in Rockville, MD office
• Social gatherings throughout the year
• Referral Bonuses