Senior Search Applications Performance Engineer

Why this role?

Join the Compass team to optimize and scale our Search Applications and infrastructure, ensuring users receive fast, reliable, and intelligent search experiences. You'll work at the intersection of search technology and performance engineering, revolutionizing how users interact with AI‑powered search through continuous optimization, benchmarking, and infrastructure enhancements. Your work will directly enhance document understanding capabilities and support the development of new tool surfaces designed for agentic users.

In this role, you will…

Implement performance monitoring and optimization strategies for Compass search services and the integration with North

Develop and maintain benchmarking frameworks to evaluate search model performance and infrastructure efficiency

Collaborate with modeling teams to optimize search models for faster response times and reduced resource consumption

Work on scaling the search ser...