Job Description
As a principle engineer in the Search Engine team, you will be responsible for Hotstar video search engine & services, with multi-scenarios and multi-languages, which enhances international users' search experiences. In this role, you will be building a distributed, self-developed search engine cluster as well as multi-functional search services for Hotstar that will support over 10 million search requests per day. You will work on Java Spring developing environment and AWS cloud deployment, technologies such as: Spring Cloud, Kubernetes, Kafka, Redis, Hive, Database, RPC and CDN to build a scalable and high availability search cluster as well as a time-efficient popularity based multi-profile ranking algorithm.
Responsibility:
- improve the architecture of Hotstar search engine and the key techniques including query understanding / query rewriting / ranking
- Optimize the overall user experience for the Hotstar video search
- Build distributed search clusters in multi-scenarios and multi-language that can handle more than 10 million international search requests.
- Build monitoring and alerts to track cluster status and service performance; maintain high available search clusters
- Optimize ranking algorithm based on NLP and ML.
- Advocate engineering best practices, including design patterns, code review and automated unit/functional testing.
- Introduce the team to the value of new technologies and frameworks through experimentation
Requirements:
- 5+ years demonstrated coding skills and experiences in java and web service; Profound understanding of web and database technologies; Familiar with spring boot framework
- Experience & knowledge on micro service CI/CD and orchestration
- Experience with the following technologies and applications is a plus but not required: ElasticSearch, Lucene, NLP, ML
- Experience with vertical search engine and ranking technology is a plus
- Keep Learning: A strong grasp of computer science fundamentals
- Bias for Action: The ability to jump into a project and contribute immediately to both architecture and implementation
- Collaboration: Great communication and collaboration skills and a strong teamwork ethic
- Written and spoken communication skills in both Chinese and English
Education?
- M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science / Electronics Engineering is preferred
Company Info.
Disney+ Hotstar
Disney+ Hotstar today is the one-stop destination for all your entertainment needs - from Live Sports, Indian and International Shows and Movies to all Disney content, including Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, National Geographic and Disney+ Originals. We’re looking for the brightest minds to build the future of TV with us.
We believe there are only two ways to realize our goals – by daring or daring more.
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Industry
Media
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No. of Employees
500
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Location
Lower Parel West, Lower Parel, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400013, IN
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