Search Engineer

4 - 8 years

5 - 9 Lacs

Posted:4 days ago| Platform: Naukri logo

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Job Description

Highly skilled

Search Engineer

with deep expertise in designing, implementing, and optimizing search solutions using

Apache Solr

,

Elasticsearch

, and

Apache Spark

. Need substantial experience handling

big data search

and

document-based retrieval

, with a strong focus on

writing complex queries

and

indexing strategies

for large-scale systems.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design and implement robust, scalable search architectures using

    Solr

    and

    Elasticsearch

    .
  • Write, optimize, and maintain

    complex search queries

    (including full-text, faceted, fuzzy, geospatial, and nested queries) using Solr Query Parser and Elasticsearch DSL.
  • Work with business stakeholders to understand search requirements and translate them into performant and accurate queries.
  • Build and manage

    custom analyzers, tokenizers, filters

    , and

    index mappings/schemas

    tailored to domain-specific search needs.
  • Develop and optimize

    indexing pipelines using Apache Spark

    for processing large-scale structured and unstructured datasets.
  • Perform query tuning and

    search relevance optimization

    based on precision, recall, and user engagement metrics.
  • Create and maintain

    query templates

    and

    search APIs

    for integration with enterprise applications.
  • Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve search performance and infrastructure reliability.
  • Conduct evaluations and benchmarking of search quality, query latency, and index refresh times.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

  • 4 to 5 years of hands-on experience with

    Apache Solr

    and/or

    Elasticsearch

    in production environments.
  • Proven ability to write and optimize

    complex Solr queries

    (standard, dismax, edismax parsers) and

    Elasticsearch Query DSL

    , including:
  • Full-text search with analyzers
  • Faceted and filtered search
  • Boolean and range queries
  • Aggregations and suggesters
  • Nested and parent/ child queries
  • Strong understanding of

    indexing principles

    , Lucene internals, and relevance scoring mechanisms (BM25, TF-IDF).
  • Proficiency with

    Apache Spark

    for custom indexing workflows and large-scale data processing.
  • Experience with document parsing and extraction (JSON, XML, PDFs, etc.) for search indexing.
  • Experience integrating search into web applications or enterprise software platforms.

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