Principal Software Engineer, Gettyimages
Search & Ranking
Royalty free stock images
Job no longer available
Royalty free stock images
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To move the world through our images, videos, and illustrations which seek to inform, drive debate, entertain, inspire, and challenge historic biases.
Role
Who you are
- Commanding knowledge and experience working with large-scale search technologies, such as Solr and Elasticsearch
- Experience as a technical team leader
- Significant programming experience in a structured software development environment
- Significant experience designing, developing, and supporting large, enterprise class solutions
- Experience deploying cloud-hosted applications
- Ability to quickly and accurately estimate cost and effort needed to deliver a feature
- B.S./B.A. in Computer Science or equivalent quantitative field
- Master’s Degree preferred
What the job involves
- Getty Images has access to hundreds of millions of images; your job is to help customers identify and discover only the highest quality and most relevant content for their brand, campaign, or side-project
- In the growing industry of on-site search, we apply visual intelligence, outstanding sorting and recommendation algorithms and natural language processing (NLP) to collect and manifest the style and concepts of our customer's search needs
- This role requires utmost familiarity with the industry of Search and will allow you to lead with your passion and knowledge of search
- We move the world with our imagery, and we want your help to drive this progress forward with relevance algorithms, image search, NLP!
- This role will work very closely with product management, content, data science, and senior technology leaders to deliver groundbreaking changes with speed and vitality, and will encourage those around them to set a higher standard and deliver impact
- Work with the other Principal Engineer to lead the search engineering team to deliver innovative and customer-impacting products
- Identify and remove obstacles in the way from achieving the fastest path to value
- Be a phenomenal partner to multiple multi-functional groups, with a magnified focus on providing the best experience for our customers
- Help establish and maintain a culture of quality and ownership for the search infrastructure
- Quickly deliver significant customer and business impact with search and AI/ML technologies
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
Getty Images is the most trusted and esteemed source of visual content in the world, with over 495 million assets available through its industry-leading brands (Getty Images, iStock and Unsplash), serving creative, business and media customers, regardless of size, in almost 200 countries.
The company works with over 488,000 contributors and 300+ content partners, covering more than 160,000 news, sport, and entertainment events each year, creating the most comprehensive digital archive in the world. Getty Images has long-standing partnerships with some of the world’s top premium brands, including BBC, Sony Pictures, Dove, and NASCAR.
After completing a merger with CC Neuberger Principal Holdings, the company has gone public once again, which has enabled it to substantially pay down existing debt. The extremely well-established company is set to remain a market leader as it continues to further the reach of its subscription-based model across the globe.
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Company benefits
- Healthcare Coverage
- Work‑Life Balance and Remote Flexibility (dependent on region)
- Time‑Off Benefits (dependent on region)
- Retirement Benefits
- Life Insurance
- Transit Benefits
- Team‑ and Office‑Wide Celebrations
- Donation Matching & Volunteer Days
Company values
- We are trustworthy, transparent, and honest
- We always raise the bar
- We collectively bring solutions
- We care, are kind, courteous and respectful
- We are inclusive of different voices, perspectives and experiences
- We reject biased behavior and discrimination
- We are one Getty Images with no silos
- We deliver on our commitments and commercial goals
- We put the customer at the heart of everything we do
Company HQ
Seattle Chinatown-International District, Seattle, WA
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Founders
Craig Peters
(CEO, not founder)Former SVP (Business Development, Content & Product) and VP (Footage, Music, & Multimedia) at Getty Images. Former Board Member at both Daylife and Life.com. Previous SVP at MediaVast, VP (Business Development) at Fox Interactive Media, and Director (New Media & Strategic Development) at PGA Tour.
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