About the Position

Archiving and e-Discovery and are core offerings of Mimecast which are underpinned by search technology. Our challenge is to scale it to keep pace with a rapidly expanding dataset. The platform indexes 270 million documents daily and has 170 billion documents under management.

Team goals:

• deliver the next generation indexing and search platform
• integrate the new platform into the mimeOS infrastructure
• migrate data from the legacy system to the new platform
• improve search accuracy and implement features beyond keyword based search
• maintain and improve search performance

• Managing and expanding the team (7 engineers currently; have budget for more)
• Managing the team workload (sprint planning etc)
• Setting priorities based on department goals and roadmap
• Participate in capacity planning discussion with the platform operations team
• Participate in HW design/selection process
• Participate in architectural discussions
• Ensure that Mimecast security principles are followed
• Investigate and drive change within the team's services to improve stability and cost to serve

Essential Skills and Experience:

•  Minimum of 9-12 years experience developing in one or more of the following languages: C/C++, Java, C#
•  Solid experience with concurrency, multithreading, server architectures, distributed systems and load balancing techniques 
•  Expert knowledge developing and debugging distributed applications in a *nix environment
•  Search engine experience, ideally Lucene
•  Good knowledge of storage hardware (HDD, SSD)
•  Understanding of various levels of file system caching at operating system level 

Desired Skills

•  Experience with operating system internals, programming language design
•  Solr, ElasticSearch
•  REST / SOAP programming
•  Knowledge of TCP/IP and network programming