Could your next optimization improve how millions of pieces of content become searchable? As a Senior C++ Developer on our indexing team, you'll help evolve the core technology powering Coveo’s indexing and search engine.
You'll work on large-scale systems where performance, scalability, and reliability matter every day, helping shape the technologies behind our AI-powered search experiences.
As one of our Senior C++ Developers, you will: .
- Design, develop, and optimize modern C++ code for Coveo’s indexing and search engine technologies.
- Improve the performance, scalability, and reliability of core indexing algorithms and infrastructure.
- Work on low-level systems challenges involving memory management, concurrency, data structures, distributed processing, and high-throughput indexing.
- Analyze existing systems, identify bottlenecks, and implement improvements that make our engine faster and more efficient.
- Contribute to the architecture of new core indexing capabilities that support Coveo’s search and AI-powered experiences.
- Collaborate with engineering, data science, and product teams to transform complex search requirements into robust engine-level capabilities.
Here is what will qualify you for the role:
- A minimum of about 5 years of experience in software development with C++, with familiarity with C++17 or newer as a strong asset.
- Strong experience building performant, reusable, scalable, and maintainable code in complex systems.
- A solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, concurrency, and systems-level performance considerations.
- Resourcefulness, a growth mindset, and a track record of solving complex technical problems.
What would make you stand out:
- Experience building large-scale indexing, search, or information retrieval systems.
- Experience optimizing C++ applications for latency, throughput, or memory efficiency.
- Experience developing cloud-hosted distributed systems.
- Familiarity with vector search, AI-powered search, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Vespa, or similar technologies.
Do you think you can bring this role to life? Send us your application, we want to hear from you!
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Skills Required
- Minimum ~5 years of experience in software development with C++
- Familiarity with C++17 or newer
- Strong experience building performant, reusable, scalable, and maintainable code in complex systems
- Solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, concurrency, and systems-level performance
- Resourcefulness, growth mindset, and track record of solving complex technical problems
- Experience building large-scale indexing, search, or information retrieval systems
- Experience optimizing C++ applications for latency, throughput, or memory efficiency
- Experience developing cloud-hosted distributed systems
- Familiarity with vector search, AI-powered search, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Vespa, or similar technologies
Coveo Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare is considered comprehensive and good value, spanning medical, dental, vision, disability, mental‑health support, telemedicine, and an EAP. This breadth and perceived affordability stand out across locations.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid holidays, PTO/sick leave, volunteer time off, and work‑from‑home flexibility are commonly available. Flexible working hours and solid vacation policies in Canada further support work‑life balance.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental‑leave top‑ups, options to extend leave, and on‑site daycare in Quebec City indicate robust family support. These provisions complement caregiver‑friendly flexibility in day‑to‑day scheduling.
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What We Do
Coveo powers the digital experiences of the world’s most innovative brands serving millions of people and billions of interactions across every digital experience. After a decade of enriching our market-leading platform with forward-thinking global enterprises, we know what it takes to gain a trusted AI-experience advantage. We strongly believe that the future is business-to-person, that experience is today’s competitive front line, a make or break for every business. For enterprises to achieve this AI-experience advantage at scale, it is imperative to have an Enterprise Spinal and composable ability to deliver AI semantic search and generative experiences at each customer and employee interaction.
