Remove profile documents from search using the removal generation
A delayed indexing event arrives after a search document was deleted and makes the profile searchable again.
- Focused work estimate
- 3h + prerequisites
- Priority in the scenario
- Medium
- Engineering practice
- Search indexing · Event ordering
Estimated field mix
- Privacy engineering40%
- Data engineering30%
- Distributed systems30%
Field percentages are editorial estimates of the ticket's engineering focus. They total 100%; they are not measured time, proficiency scores, or ownership evidence.
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Project context
A fictional collaboration product lets a member request removal of their personal profile. Search, notifications and cached displays retain copies after the primary row disappears. The exercise uses a documented product deletion policy and synthetic identities.
Setup prerequisites
- Create local profile, search-index and notification fixtures with controlled provider failures.
- Define synthetic members, organizations and a current-session authorization fixture.
Preceding work
Complete these dependencies, or supply their agreed outputs before taking this ticket.
Acceptance criteria
- Bind indexing and removal to a comparable subject generation or explicit suppression rule.
- Make repeated search deletion safe and keep stale indexing events from restoring the profile.
- Keep cleanup tenant/subject-scoped so similarly named profiles remain searchable.
Implementation constraints
- Treat the search adapter as eventually consistent and define the observation needed before declaring that location complete.
Verification to include
- Delete a profile, replay its older indexing event and verify it stays absent after the adapter’s declared convergence condition.
- Search for a same-name profile in another organization and verify it remains unaffected.
Deliverables
- Search cleanup adapter and stale-event regressions
Rollout and recovery
Canary on synthetic subjects; retain unresolved search state if the adapter cannot establish the expected convergence.
Value of the work
For the engineer: Practice distributed cleanup, identity scope, idempotency and accurate user-facing lifecycle states.
For the team: Produce a reviewable deletion workflow and copy inventory for adaptation to an approved company policy.
Evidence boundaries
Outcome Evidence: Tests, patches, and runbooks are requested deliverables. They become Outcome Evidence only through a qualified Mission and immutable Evidence IDs.
Ownership Evidence: Independent adaptation must be observed under a declared verification policy and cite immutable Evidence IDs. Completing a planning ticket establishes no Ownership Evidence.