About the Team:
The Search Team at Getty Images is responsible for building the search technology that empowers our customers to move the world with images. To meet the ever-changing needs of our customers, we explore, develop, and deploy new AI/ML technologies, visual search algorithms, computer vision models, and new ranking techniques at scale. We are pushing ourselves to expand our capacity to provide our customers with the fresh and distinctive content that defines Getty Images, in order to elevate our customers' daily needs.
What you will do:
- Backend engineering to maintain microservicesserving an access point to Getty Images Search
- Build scalable software solutions that provide a tailored search experience based on customer metrics
- Form strong cross-functional relationships with engineering, data science, and product teams at Getty Images
- Maintain focus on reliability, resiliency, and security
- Take ownership of changes and code quality from concept to production
What we are looking for:
- Experience building and operating complex distributed systems at scale
- Empathy for users and their business goals
- Proven experience building and leading software engineering teams with a focus on
- inclusion and diversity
- Tenacity and the ability to balance competing priorities across multiple cross-functional stakeholders
- Orientation towards long-term impact as the yardstick for prioritization, but able to strike
- the right balance between short-term goals and longer-term vision
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Curiosity and pragmatism
Qualifications & Experience:
- Proficient in C# with great object-oriented design practices
- Working knowledge of search algorithms and their practical applications.
- Hands-on experience with AWS Technologies (Such as Dynamo, ECS, EC2, S3)
- Experience with containers and container schedulers (Docker, ECS)
Nice to have:
- Familiarity with the following: Solr/ Lucene, Spark, or Kafka
- Knowledge or experience with FAISS, vector search, or NLP
- Understanding of Java or other object-oriented languages
- Understanding and utilization of scripting languages such as Bash, Python and Ruby
- Experience with CI/CD and Gitlab
- Experience with monitoring tools such as Splunk, Grafana, and Prometheus
There’s a story in every picture, a narrative in every frame.
We believe in the power of visuals. As a leading visual content creator, our three brands–Getty Images, iStock, and Unsplash–offer a full range of content solutions to meet the needs of any customer, whatever their size, location, or budget. Whether the goal is commercial or philanthropic, revenue-generating or society-changing, market-disrupting or headline-driving, our visuals help any brand, business, or organization communicate more effectively with their target audience and urge them to action. In other words, we know how powerful an image or video can be—and that it can move the world.
Working at Getty Images
Our goal is to be one of the best places to work globally, which means we’re dedicated to providing experiences and resources that allow you to do your best work. Foundational to our culture are our Leadership Principles, which are the shared values that guide how we come together to do our work. We raise the bar and collectively bring solutions while exercising trust, transparency, and care. We actively reject biased behavior and are inclusive of different voices, perspectives, and experiences. We focus on our customers and deliver on our commitments and commercial goals.
We foster a collaborative and supportive environment that prioritizes delivering results efficiently and using time wisely, so that all employees can achieve balance between commitments to the company and health and well-being in our lives. We value the importance of rest and recovery ranging from company-paid holidays to time away from work.
Getty Images Holdings, Inc. is a publicly traded company, and its common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "GETY". You may be eligible to participate in our employee Stock Purchase Plan, which allows employees to purchase company stock at a 15% discount to market.
Our employees’ growth, development, belonging, and engagement are important investments. We offer learning experiences ranging from leadership development, diversity and inclusion training, mentoring programs, a high potential program, and professional and skills development. We prioritize staying connected in our hybrid-working world and encourage participation in global morale events and local gatherings, as well as finding community in one or more of our Employee Resource Groups. Learning about our business is paramount, and our open and transparent culture means you’ll have direct access to experts and senior leaders via open forums, all hands, and content hours.
Getty Images believes that diversity is critical to our success in moving the world and is committed to creating an inclusive, mutually respectful environment that celebrates diversity. We seek to hire based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. Getty Images is an equal opportunity employer.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.
