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Search Engineer, Technical Support

Lucidworks

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IT, Customer Service

Remote · United States

Posted on Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Lucidworks is leading digital transformation for some of the world's biggest retailers, financial services firms, manufacturers, and B2B commerce organizations. We believe that the core to a great digital experience starts with search and browse. Our Deep Learning technology captures user behavior and utilizes machine learning to connect people with the products, content, and information they need. Brands including Crate & Barrel, Lenovo, Red Hat, and Cisco Systems rely on Lucidworks' suite of products to power commerce, customer service, and workplace applications that delight customers and empower employees. Lucidworks believes in the power of diversity and inclusion to help us do our best work. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and welcome talent across a full range of backgrounds, orientation, origin, and identity in an inclusive and non-discriminatory way.

About the Role

As a Search Engineer in Technical Support, you will play a critical role in helping our clients achieve success with our products. You will be responsible for assisting clients directly in resolving any technical issues they encounter, as well as answering questions about the product and feature functionality. You will work closely with internal teams such as Engineering and Customer Success to resolve a variety of issues, including product defects, performance issues, and feature requests.

This role requires excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail, strong communication abilities, and a deep understanding of search technology. Additionally, this role requires the ability to work independently and as part of a team, and being comfortable working with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. The successful candidate will demonstrate a passion for delivering an outstanding customer experience, balancing technical expertise with empathy for the customer’s needs.

Note:

- This role will provide support to our U.S. government customers.

- This is a remote role and will remain remote but is limited to candidates located in Pacific time zones.

- This role is expected to participate in evening and weekend on-call rotations.

Responsibilities:

Field incoming questions, help users configure Lucidworks Fusion and its components, and help them to understand how to use the features of the product
Troubleshoot complex search issues in and around Lucene/Solr
Document solutions into knowledge base articles for use by our customer base in our knowledge center
Identify opportunities to provide customers with additional value through follow-on products and/or services
Communicate high-value use cases and customer feedback to our Product Development and Engineering teams
Collaborate across teams internally to diagnose and resolve critical issues
Participating in a 24/7/365 on-call rotation, which includes weekends and holidays shifts

Skills & Qualifications:

US citizenship required due to government contracts (Required)
2+ years of hands-on experience with Lucene/Solr or other search technologies like Elastic (Required)
BS or higher in Engineering or Computer Science is preferred
3+ years professional experience in a customer facing level 2-3 tech support role
Experience with technical support CRM systems (Salesforce, Zendesk etc.)
Ability to clearly communicate with customers by email and phone
Proficiency with Java and one or more common scripting languages (Python, Perl, Ruby, etc.)
Proficiency with Unix/Linux systems (command line navigation, file system permissions, system logs and administration, scripting, networking, etc.)

Bonus points for:

Exposure to other related open source projects (Mahout, Hadoop, Tika, etc.) and commercial search technologies
Enterprise Search, eCommerce, and/or Business Intelligence experience
Knowledge of data science and machine learning concepts
Experience with cloud computing platforms (GCP, Azure, AWS, etc.) and Kubernetes
Startup experience

Our stack:

Apache Lucene/Solr, ZooKeeper, Spark, Pulsar, Kafka, Grafana
Java, Python, Linux, Kubernetes
Zendesk, Jira

Lucidworks believes in the power of diversity and inclusion to help us do our best work. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and welcome talent across a full range of backgrounds, orientation, origin, and identity in an inclusive and non-discriminatory way. Applicants receive consideration based on the relevant talents, skills, and experiences they offer to our company.

Thank you for your interest and we look forward to learning more about you.

Note to third party recruiters:

We appreciate your interest in our job opportunities. However, we kindly request that third-party recruiters and staffing agencies refrain from contacting us regarding these positions. We prefer to work directly with candidates and do not accept unsolicited resumes or candidate referrals from third-party recruiters or agencies. Unsolicited resumes and referrals will become the property of Lucidworks, and no fee will be paid should we hire a candidate whose resume was sent unsolicited.