Job: Rust + Retrieval Systems at Etsy

Hi /r/rust, I’m a SWE on Etsy’s Retrieval Systems team where we’re building a platform based on rust and tantivy (https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy). We’re looking to bring two new engineers onto the team.

We are building a low latency, high availability, inverted index system which provides filtering, vector search (ANN), and lexical retrieval. These features power Etsy search, recommendations, and ads.

Several years ago Etsy created a solr-based solution with some of these capabilities, and now using rust + tantivy has given meaningful improvements to latency, compute costs, operability, and data ingestion time. Perhaps more importantly, it is now a platform where we can implement next-gen retrieval experiments.

I’m happy to answer any questions here or feel free to message me directly!

Senior Software Engineer II: https://smrtr.io/fyFvT

Senior Staff Software Engineer: https://smrtr.io/fyFvY