Senior Search Engineer, Index Team

• Work on the systems that power Kagi's own search index — the layer that makes results meaningfully different from everyone else's. • Own pieces of the full pipeline from URL frontier and job scheduling through document ingestion, processing, and indexed retrieval. • Help make the pipeline faster, fresher, and more reliable, while working on index quality to understand what's in the index, what should be, and what shouldn't be. • A role for someone who finds deep satisfaction in the unglamorous work that makes a search index actually good. • Available fully remote from anywhere.

• Have 5+ years of backend engineering experience in production information retrieval/search systems. • Have prior experience with search index infrastructure, URL frontier systems, or crawl scheduling. • Have deep expertise across the information retrieval stack: index design, relevance scoring and ranking optimisation, near-duplicate detection, query engine architectures, and graph-based signal extraction. • Have strong database skills — comfortable designing and optimising complex PostgreSQL schemas and queries, including large job/task tables that need to scale. • Have proficiency in Python and/or Rust. • Have the ability to reason about large-scale data pipelines: throughput, correctness, idempotency, and operational reliability.

• Have experience with observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, or similar. • Have comfort with Redis for distributed state and queue management. • Have experience with distributed job scheduling or work queue systems, understanding the failure modes and edge cases. • Have experience operating systems where correctness and data quality are the primary constraints.

• Embed within the Search team to ensure index improvements translate into better results for users. • Design and improve the URL frontier and crawl job scheduling system — how Kagi decides what to index, when, and in what order. • Own and evolve the indexing strategy (what gets indexed post-crawl) and ranking implementation. • Investigate and fix index quality issues including spam, stale content, deduplication, and coverage gaps.

• Work fully remotely from anywhere in the world. • Build and maintain a search index that directly shapes what millions of searches return. • Join a team building a surveillance-free internet designed around the user. • Work on hard technical problems involving distributed job scheduling, large-scale data pipelines, and index quality engineering.

Kagi is building a companion for a better web. Products include Kagi Search, Orion browser, Kagi Assistant, Kagi News, Kagi Summarizer, and Kagi Translate. Every product reflects a commitment to a surveillance-free internet, designed around the user. Unlike most search engines that aggregate results from the same sources, Kagi builds and maintains its own index.