Sr. Software Engineer, Backend (Search Platform)

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Bengaluru, Bengaluru Urban, Karnataka, IND
In-Office
Information Technology
The Role

About Dialpad
Dialpad is the AI-native business communications platform. We unify calling, messaging, meetings, and contact center on a single platform - powered by AI that understands every conversation in real time.

More than 70,000 companies around the globe, including WeWork, Asana, NASDAQ, AAA Insurance, COMPASS Realty, Uber, Randstad, and Tractor Supply, rely on Dialpad to build stronger customer connections using real-time, AI-driven insights.

We’re now leading the shift to Agentic AI: intelligent agents that don’t just analyze conversations but take action by automating workflows, resolving customer issues, and accelerating revenue in real time. Our DAART initiative (Dialpad Agentic AI in Real Time) is redefining what a communications platform can do.

Visit dialpad.com to learn more.

Being a Dialer
At Dialpad, AI isn’t just a feature; it’s how our teams do their best work every day. We put powerful AI tools in every employee’s hands so they can move faster, think bigger, and achieve more.

We believe every conversation matters. And we’ve built the platform that turns those conversations into insight and action, for our customers and ourselves.

We look for people who are intensely curious and hold themselves to a high bar. Our ambition is significant, and achieving it requires a team that operates at the highest level. We seek individuals who embody our core traits: Scrappy, Curious, Optimistic, Persistent, and Empathetic.

Your role
Dialpad’s Product Engineering organization is responsible for building and maintaining the customer-facing features at scale across all of our cloud-native products and services. Every day, millions of users across the world leverage our technology for communicating effectively and efficiently.

Every engineer on our global engineering team is given the opportunity to take ownership of a large portion of the product where they’re able to see immediate results. Combining natural language processing and artificial intelligence with world-class cloud computing, the things you’ll create at Dialpad will shape the future of work—enabling companies to work from anywhere and making business communication more human.

Dialpad’s Analytics team owns data pipelines, multiple databases, a modular query layer, and rich FE components to deliver intuitive and powerful end-user-facing analytics experiences that allow Dialpad customers to make data-driven business decisions. Our teams are highly collaborative and comprise cross-disciplinary professionals, including Product Managers, Designers, QA specialists, as well as Engineers specialising in Data Engineering, Data Science, and Telephony.

This position reports to the Engineering Manager, who is based in Bengaluru, and the role will be based in our Bengaluru, India Office. The position will require a hybrid working arrangement based out of our Bengaluru office.

What you’ll do
  • Contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of information retrieval and distributed systems.
  • Build and optimize search engines, including indexers, analyzers, ranking, and re-ranking strategies.
  • Work on hybrid search techniques, including dense vector manipulation, rank fusion, and reranking.
  • Maintain and enhance highly scalable search platforms with a focus on performance and cost efficiency.
  • Ensure high availability, reliability, and fault tolerance in search services.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
  • Develop and optimize real-time distributed systems, microservices, and message-driven architectures.
  • Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, and performance metrics for platform reliability.
  • Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies to improve search capabilities.
  • Write clean, modular, and well-tested code while following best engineering practices.
  • Participate in code reviews to ensure quality, maintainability, and scalability.
  • Provide mentorship and technical guidance to junior engineers.
Skills you’ll bring
  • 4-7 years of experience in information retrieval or distributed systems engineering.
  • Strong understanding of search platforms and experience maintaining search engines at scale.
  • Deep knowledge of indexers, analyzers, field mapping, and ranking techniques.
  • Experience with NLP/NLU within the context of information retrieval.
  • Expertise in dense vector manipulation and optimization.
  • Familiarity with hybrid search, rank fusion, and reranking techniques.
  • Proficiency in Go and Python 3 (experience with Rust or TypeScript is a plus).
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and message-driven architectures.
  • Passion for real-time performance optimization and high availability.
  • Experience with API design using Swagger, OpenAPI, or equivalent tools.
  • Knowledge of gRPC or equivalent RPC protocols.
  • Experience with Docker and Kubernetes for containerized deployments.
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms (GCP preferred, AWS/Azure optional).
  • Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform or Ansible.
  • Knowledge of CI/CD frameworks and continuous delivery practices.

Why Join Dialpad

  • Work at the center of the AI transformation in business communications
  • Build and ship agentic AI products that are redefining how companies operate
  • Join a team where AI amplifies every employee’s impact
  • Competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and real opportunities for growth

We believe in investing in our people. Dialpad offers competitive benefits and perks, cutting-edge AI tools, and a robust training program that help you reach your full potential. We have designed our offices to be inclusive, offering a vibrant environment to cultivate collaboration and connection. Our exceptional culture, repeatedly recognized as a Great Place to Work, ensures that every employee feels valued and empowered to contribute to our collective success.

Don’t meet every single requirement? If you’re excited about this role and possess the fundamental traits, drive, and strong ambition we seek, but your experience doesn’t meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply. 

 Dialpad is an equal-opportunity employer. We are dedicated to creating a community of inclusion and an environment free from discrimination or harassment.

Dialpad Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Dialpad and has not been reviewed or approved by Dialpad.

  • Fair & Transparent Compensation Compensation is viewed as competitive across many roles, combining salary, bonuses, equity, and benefits into a well-rounded package. Overall satisfaction with pay and total compensation is characterized as positive.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Paid time off is described as generous, with an unlimited PTO policy highlighted as a standout element. This breadth of time off is positioned as a central strength of the benefits package.
  • Healthcare Strength Healthcare coverage is characterized as comprehensive, spanning medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, and mental health benefits. Such coverage depth is presented as a core strength of the overall package.

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
841 Employees
Year Founded: 2011

What We Do

Dialpad is a cloud-based business phone system that turns conversations into opportunities and helps global teams make smarter calls--anywhere, anytime. We bring simplicity to the professional phone experience and some of the world’s most innovative companies use our platform. Dialpad's products span video meetings, cloud call centers, sales coaching and dialers and enterprise phone systems--and are all infused with the latest AI technologies to help every business make smarter calls. Customers include WeWork, Uber, Motorola Solutions, Domo and Xero. Investors include Amasia, Andreessen Horowitz, Felicis Ventures, GV, ICONIQ Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Section 32, Softbank and Work-Bench.

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