Job Overview
Location
Remote - USA
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Software Development
Date Posted
July 9, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • Joining the Search Backend team as a Senior Software Engineer, you will be instrumental in ingesting and delivering content to a variety of platform experiences.
- • You will be responsible for owning Pluralsight’s Search backend system, managing a system-critical, reliable, and scalable product - uptime and response time matter.
- • You will work closely with the entire team (including Product, Design, Dev Ops, etc.) to build products with powerful impact.
- • You will work as a team to design, implement, and analyze experiments.
- • You will take part in the team’s on-call rotation, resolving alerts and taking ownership in implementing improvements.
- • You will play a key role in the consumption and production of data across the platform, interfacing with many teams at Pluralsight.
- • You will have experience with information retrieval systems (e.g. Algolia, Elasticsearch), various components of a search pipeline such as query understanding, matching, and relevance, and streaming data (e.g. Kafka).
- • You will have the ability to discuss complex topics with both technical and non-technical audiences.
- • You will have experience building software with Python, TypeScript (Node), and Postgres, designing and building public or shared APIs, delivering software frequently, and building robust deployment pipelines.
- • You will have the skills of a high-proficiency, senior engineer through delivery but also mentorship of others.
🎯 Requirements
- • 8+ years of relevant experience, or 6+ years with an advanced degree.
- • Experience building software with Python, TypeScript (Node), and Postgres.
- • Experience designing and building public or shared APIs.
- • Experience delivering software frequently, and building robust deployment pipelines.
- • Ability to discuss complex topics with both technical and non-technical audiences.
- • Experience with information retrieval systems (e.g. Algolia, Elasticsearch).
🏖️ Benefits
- • Competitive compensation.
- • Bonus eligibility.
- • Comprehensive medical coverage.
- • Unlimited PTO.
- • Wellness reimbursement.
- • Professional development funds.
- • More.
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About Pluralsight, Inc.
Pluralsight, Inc. is an American technology workforce development company that provides an online learning platform focused on software development, IT operations, data, cybersecurity, and cloud computing. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Draper, Utah, the company offers expert-authored video courses, skill assessments, and hands-on labs targeting individual technologists and enterprise teams. Its SaaS products measure proficiency across technology roles, recommend personalized learning paths, and supply analytics to help organizations close critical skills gaps, accelerate cloud adoption, and improve developer productivity. Pluralsight went public on NASDAQ in 2018 and was taken private by Vista Equity Partners in 2021.
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