Who we are

noon, the region's leading consumer commerce platform. On December 12th, 2017, noon launched its consumer platform in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, expanding to Egypt in February 2019. The noon ecosystem of services now includes marketplaces for food delivery, quick-commerce, fintech, and fashion. noon is a work in progress; we’re six years in, but only 5% done.

noon’s mission: Ring every doorbell, everyday.

About the role

As Head of Platform Engineering, Search for noon.com, our largest business, you will be responsible for the infrastructure and reliability of its search – a giant repository of hundreds of millions of products that need to be searched within milliseconds, both via vector as well as traditional (BM25 & the likes) type of queries. You will be responsible for modeling decisions of our indexes, reliability, scaling rps per node and monitoring of our entire search stack.

What you'll do:

• Own what’s running: join our team and take ownership of monitoring, diagnosing and reliability of our search clusters, deeply understand how our apps interact with our clusters and improve both latency & throughput of our search stack
• (Re)Design our search infrastructure for the future: with the impressive scale up of our seller / product base, our systems need to be re-thought to accommodate growth in the orders of magnitude
• Lead a tight-knit focused team: hire, lead and mentor a team whose sole focus is making sure that we could describe noon.com’s search as fast, scalable and unbreakable

What you'll need:

• Expertise: extensive experience (6+ years preferred) in the infrastructure and internals of large-scale search engines (Elasticsearch/Lucene/OpenSearch/Solr).
• Production Focus: Experience working in high-scale, latency-sensitive environments.
• Architectural Ownership: The ability to scale out a large search index bound to grow 10x in the upcoming 24 months
• Platform Mindset: Experience with cloud-native infrastructure (GCP/GKE preferred) and modern observability stacks.
• Leadership: We value Individual Contributors who are ready to maintain a high personal output while stepping into people management, leading & mentoring other members of their team