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Software Engineering Team Lead, AI and Search Team (C/C++ or Rust)

Redis
AI / ML Engineer • Lead • Remote • Full-time • 📍 Bulgaria
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As a Software Engineering Team Lead on Redis AI and Search, you take a hands-on leadership role building and leading a team responsible for Redis' Search, vector and AI capabilities. These power real-time full-text search, vector similarity and retrieval layers for modern AI systems including RAG. You combine people leadership with systems-level development in C, C++ and Rust.

Stack

C#RedisRust

Responsibilities

  • ▹Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team while remaining hands-on in design and implementation
  • ▹Provide technical leadership in systems-level development using C, C++ and Rust
  • ▹Drive enhancements to Redis' AI and Search capabilities (vector search, hybrid retrieval, semantic caching)
  • ▹Design, maintain and improve CI/CD workflows for high-velocity, high-quality releases
  • ▹Lead incident response and customer engagement for production issues, including postmortems
  • ▹Collaborate with Core, Cloud, Product and Support teams
  • ▹Recruit, mentor and develop engineers

Requirements

  • ▹8+ years in systems-level or database software development, including people leadership
  • ▹At least 3+ years managing teams building software in C, C++ or Rust
  • ▹Proven background at a database company or on distributed data systems (storage engines, caching, streaming)
  • ▹Deep understanding of memory management, concurrency, performance optimization and distributed consistency
  • ▹Excellent collaboration and communication skills in distributed and global teams
  • ▹Strong track record of building and growing high-performing teams and mentoring engineers
  • ▹Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering or related field (or equivalent experience)

Nice to have

  • ▹Experience supporting AI infrastructure or platforms (search, retrieval, caching, data layers)
  • ▹Experience with Rust
  • ▹Experience improving developer productivity using AI-assisted tooling
  • ▹Familiarity with NoSQL databases, especially Redis
  • ▹Experience leading or maintaining open-source projects

Soft skills

People leadershipMentoringExcellent collaboration and communicationOwnership and continuous improvement mindset

What we offer

  • ▹Competitive salary and equity grants
  • ▹25 days of flexible vacation
  • ▹Hybrid working options
  • ▹Home internet & phone allowance
  • ▹One-time home-office setup allowance
  • ▹Health and dental insurance, life insurance, critical illness cover
Education: Informatikai, mérnöki vagy kapcsolódó BSc/MSc, vagy ezzel egyenértékű gyakorlati tapasztalat