Senior Software Engineer, Search & Data

As a Senior Software Engineer on Search & Data at Distill, you'll own our company and people search end to end: how we ingest and transform data, how we query and rank it, and the search agents built on top. Search is fundamentally a data problem, and the quality of our profiles depends on finding and surfacing the right information. You'll have the autonomy to own this domain and build search features that don't exist anywhere else.

Key Responsibilities:

Own company and people search end to end, from data ingestion and transformation through querying, ranking, and relevance

Pick up where we left off, improving the reliability and relevance of our existing search, with the freedom to rebuild it over time as you see fit

Design and build new search capabilities, like identifying high-growth companies, surfacing recent job changers, or matching precise company profiles

Work closely with the CTO and engineering team to make long-term architecture decisions about how search and data scale

Build search agents on top of our data, using LLMs to make results smarter and more useful

Experience with entity resolution and de-duplication problems

Strong UX and usability chops to build an understandable search experience

Experience working with Postgres in production

Experience with vector search and semantic retrieval in production

Proficiency in Node.js / TypeScript

A Proven Team: Tim and Russ have successfully built and sold multiple startups. Tim built and sold Astrid to Yahoo!. Russ most recently built and sold DocSend to Dropbox for $165m. Before that he started and sold Pursuit to Meta. They've done this before and are excited to do it again.

Immediate Impact: Be part of a small, growing startup and make a significant impact on our product and users.

Build Cool Stuff: Work with cutting-edge technologies and solve challenging problems.

Highly Technical Team: Work and think with world-class engineers

Collaborative Culture: At Distill , we foster a collaborative, low-ego culture where the best idea wins. We assume good intent and are customer-focused, valuing diversity and creativity.

Remote Team: Join a remote team that collaborates through a variety of online tools, with quarterly in-person meetups. Many of us are parents who understand the need for flexibility.

Benefits: We offer health insurance, dental care, a home office stipend, and cover expenses for in-person team meetups.s