Staff Software Developer, Search & Distributed Systems (Winnipeg)

Role Overview

ACV is a technology company that is revolutionizing the automotive industry by building a trusted digital marketplace for used vehicles. We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to lead the Search infrastructure, ensuring scalability, reliability, and data resiliency while driving operational excellence across our distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Architect, configure, and scale Elasticsearch clusters, defining strategies for shard routing, ILM, heap tuning, and data tiering.
• Design and implement failure‑mode mitigation such as circuit breakers, backpressure, and asymmetric timeouts to prevent retry storms.
• Serve as the go‑to escalation point for complex system degradation, analyzing JVM metrics, GC pauses, K8s network bottlenecks, and slow logs.
• Manage ingestion pipelines synchronizing Kafka event streams with Elasticsearch, ensuring consistency and integrity.
• Draft architectural blueprints, ...