Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This role sits squarely in a core SaaS problem space: delivering reliable, low latency search over customer data at scale. Working on a cloud based architecture that blends keyword and vector search reflects a broader shift across SaaS products toward AI assisted discovery and retrieval, where search quality and infrastructure efficiency directly shape end user experience.
For a long term SaaS engineering path, the work maps to durable platform skills rather than feature specific delivery. Designing and operating distributed components, building and storing indices, and owning production readiness builds fluency in multi tenant data patterns, service boundaries, and operational tradeoffs. Exposure to incident response and cross team troubleshooting also develops the practical judgment that SaaS companies rely on as systems and customer impact grow.
This position is best suited to an engineer who prefers deep systems work, values rigor in testing and reliability, and is comfortable being accountable for production outcomes through on call. It will appeal to someone who enjoys collaborating across time zones and contributing technical leadership through design reviews and knowledge sharing, while staying close to real world performance constraints.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Metis team. We are responsible for Metis, the cloud-based scalable architecture for NeuralSearch, our AI search engine, which incorporates both keyword and vector search. Metis consists of distributed components which orchestrate the building and storage of indices containing customer data and then querying that data to return search results. The role requires understanding and solving the challenges that come with complex distributed systems.
The team is composed of engineers, most of whom are fully remote, with different skill sets and backgrounds. Your experience, your knowledge and your perspective will add to this diversity and help the team deliver products that make a difference.
YOU WILL:
- Be a key contributor to the design and development of the Metis system
- Be responsible for operations for the Metis system including participation in out-of-hours on-call rota
- Work with a full-remote team, with the option to be either full-remote, hybrid or office based (Paris) yourself
- Be responsible for the quality and soundness of the system
- Share your expertise on distributed systems
- Work with other teams to identify, troubleshoot and resolve high impact issues
YOU MIGHT BE A FIT IF YOU HAVE:
- Experience designing and operating distributed systems in production
- Experience working with large datasets and high traffic
- Rigor in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices
- Excellent spoken and written English skills
- Experience at our current stage and beyond ($50-200M ARR range, high growth, lots of change and building internal infrastructure).
NICE TO HAVE:
- Experience in Go
- Experience in Kubernetes
- Sensitivity to Site Reliability Engineering
