What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Search Infrastructure Engineer position at Cohere?
Who are we?
Our mission is to scale intelligence to serve humanity. We’re training and deploying frontier models for developers and enterprises who are building AI systems to power magical experiences like content generation, semantic search, RAG, and agents. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI.
We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. We like to work hard and move fast to do what’s best for our customers.
Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are passionate about their craft. Each person is one of the best in the world at what they do. We believe that a diverse range of perspectives is a requirement for building great products.
Join us on our mission and shape the future!
Why this role?
As a Senior Search Infrastructure Engineer (a Member of Technical Staff role on our Search team) you will work directly with Cohere’s Search Tools and Search Modeling teams to deploy and support the search platform, and solutions built on top it.
This will include assessing service stability, managing releases, and exploring ways to increase resiliency. You will also be involved in sizing cluster hardware, optimizing the stack, and integrating with model serving backends.
In this role, you’ll be working daily with cutting edge search models, and providing the best experience for internal and external customers. This work has extremely high impact, and will contribute directly to the success of Cohere.
Please Note: This role requires participating in a 24x7 on-call rotation, where you are compensated for time spent on-call.
We have offices in Toronto, San Francisco, New York and London. We embrace a remote-friendly environment, and as part of this approach, we strategically distribute teams based on interests, expertise, and time zones to promote collaboration and flexibility.
As a Senior Search Infrastructure Engineer, You Will
We value and celebrate diversity and strive to create an inclusive work environment for all. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to providing equal opportunities. Should you require any accommodations during the recruitment process, please submit an Accommodations Request Form, and we will work together to meet your needs.
Full-Time Employees At Cohere Enjoy These Perks
🤝 An open and inclusive culture and work environment
🧑💻 Work closely with a team on the cutting edge of AI research
🍽 Weekly lunch stipend, in-office lunches & snacks
🦷 Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget to take care of your mental health
🐣 100% Parental Leave top-up for 6 months for employees based in Canada, the US, and the UK
🎨 Personal enrichment benefits towards arts and culture, fitness and well-being, quality time, and workspace improvement
🏙 Remote-flexible, offices in Toronto, New York, San Francisco and London and co-working stipend
✈️ 6 weeks of vacation
Note: This post is co-authored by both Cohere humans and Cohere technology.
Our mission is to scale intelligence to serve humanity. We’re training and deploying frontier models for developers and enterprises who are building AI systems to power magical experiences like content generation, semantic search, RAG, and agents. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI.
We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. We like to work hard and move fast to do what’s best for our customers.
Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are passionate about their craft. Each person is one of the best in the world at what they do. We believe that a diverse range of perspectives is a requirement for building great products.
Join us on our mission and shape the future!
Why this role?
As a Senior Search Infrastructure Engineer (a Member of Technical Staff role on our Search team) you will work directly with Cohere’s Search Tools and Search Modeling teams to deploy and support the search platform, and solutions built on top it.
This will include assessing service stability, managing releases, and exploring ways to increase resiliency. You will also be involved in sizing cluster hardware, optimizing the stack, and integrating with model serving backends.
In this role, you’ll be working daily with cutting edge search models, and providing the best experience for internal and external customers. This work has extremely high impact, and will contribute directly to the success of Cohere.
Please Note: This role requires participating in a 24x7 on-call rotation, where you are compensated for time spent on-call.
We have offices in Toronto, San Francisco, New York and London. We embrace a remote-friendly environment, and as part of this approach, we strategically distribute teams based on interests, expertise, and time zones to promote collaboration and flexibility.
As a Senior Search Infrastructure Engineer, You Will
- Support Search Services for internal and external use cases, enabling stable and successful search experiences for our customers.
- Automate observability and resilience. Enable all developers to troubleshoot and resolve problems relating to search.
- Take steps required to ensure we hit defined SLOs, including participation in an on-call rotation.
- Build strong relationships with internal developers and influence the Search and Infrastructure team’s roadmap based on their feedback.
- Develop our team through knowledge sharing and an active review process.
- You have experience supporting Opensearch or Elasticsearch clusters in a production environment
- You have production deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters
- You have solved problems while on-call for a production system
- You have hands-on coding experience developing services and automated tests
- You have experience scaling and debugging cloud-based infrastructure through GCP, AWS, or Azure
- You see mentorship, knowledge transfer, and review as essential prerequisites for a healthy team
We value and celebrate diversity and strive to create an inclusive work environment for all. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to providing equal opportunities. Should you require any accommodations during the recruitment process, please submit an Accommodations Request Form, and we will work together to meet your needs.
Full-Time Employees At Cohere Enjoy These Perks
🤝 An open and inclusive culture and work environment
🧑💻 Work closely with a team on the cutting edge of AI research
🍽 Weekly lunch stipend, in-office lunches & snacks
🦷 Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget to take care of your mental health
🐣 100% Parental Leave top-up for 6 months for employees based in Canada, the US, and the UK
🎨 Personal enrichment benefits towards arts and culture, fitness and well-being, quality time, and workspace improvement
🏙 Remote-flexible, offices in Toronto, New York, San Francisco and London and co-working stipend
✈️ 6 weeks of vacation
Note: This post is co-authored by both Cohere humans and Cohere technology.
