Staff Backend Engineer, Search
Staff Backend Engineer, Search
ClickUp
ClickUp is seeking a Staff Search Engineer to enhance their search capabilities within a converged AI workspace. The role involves designing, optimizing, and scaling search infrastructure using OpenSearch/ElasticSearch technologies to improve user experience and productivity.
Qualification
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
- Proven experience with OpenSearch or ElasticSearch technologies
- Strong understanding of search algorithms and indexing techniques
- Experience in building scalable systems and optimizing performance
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Experience mentoring junior engineers
Responsibility
- Design and implement robust search solutions that scale with our rapidly growing user base
- Improve search relevance, accuracy, and speed to deliver the most relevant results to users at blazing fast speeds
- Enhance real-time indexing pipelines to ensure search results remain up-to-date
- Create measurement frameworks to evaluate and improve search quality
- Build and enhance vector search capabilities to power next-generation search experiences
- Collaborate with AI, backend, and product teams to integrate search into new features
- Troubleshoot complex search-related issues at scale
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to engineering best practices
