Senior Remote Search Engineer - Real-Time, Vector & AI-Driven

Showcify

United States

Remote

USD 140,000 - 190,000

Full time

14 days+
Application generator

Stand out for this role — generate a tailored resume and cover letter in about a minute.

Get past ATS filters

Job summary

ClickUp is seeking a Senior Search Engineer to design, optimize, and scale our search infrastructure that underpins our AI-driven platform. Work across Postgres and OpenSearch to deliver real-time, relevant results within users’ workspaces.

You will partner with AI, backend, and product teams to improve indexing pipelines and vector search capabilities, ensuring low latency and high-quality search experiences for a global user base.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
  • 5+ years of experience as a search engineer or in a closely related role.
  • Hands-on production experience with OpenSearch or Elasticsearch; Solr acceptable but older.
  • Experience with high-scale real-time data ingestion and search serving in backend services.
  • Proven ability to optimize query parsing, indexing, and relevance tuning for search systems.
  • Experience measuring and optimizing search quality.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement robust search solutions that scale with a rapidly growing user base.
  • Improve search relevance, accuracy, and speed to deliver the most relevant results at blazing fast speeds.
  • Improve real-time indexing pipelines to keep search results up-to-date.
  • Create measurement frameworks to evaluate and improve search quality.
  • Build and enhance vector search capabilities for next-generation search experiences.
  • Collaborate with AI, backend, and product teams to integrate search into new features.
  • Troubleshoot complex search-related issues at scale.

Skills

Search engineering
Backend performance
Real-time data ingestion
Query optimization
Information retrieval
NLP for search

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

OpenSearch
Elasticsearch
Solr
PostgreSQL
TypeScript

Job description

ClickUp is seeking a Senior Search Engineer to design, optimize, and scale our search infrastructure that underpins our AI-driven platform. Work across Postgres and OpenSearch to deliver real-time, relevant results within users’ workspaces.

You will partner with AI, backend, and product teams to improve indexing pipelines and vector search capabilities, ensuring low latency and high-quality search experiences for a global user base.

Get your free, confidential resume review.

or drag and drop your file here.

Similar jobs

Similar jobs worth comparing

Senior Backend & Vector Search Engineer (Remote)
Senior Backend & Vector Search Engineer (Remote)

Showcify • United States

Remote
USD 130,000 - 180,000
Senior Backend Search Engineer - Vector & OpenSearch
Senior Backend Search Engineer - Vector & OpenSearch

Apply • United States

On-site
USD 120,000 - 160,000
Senior Backend Engineer, Search & Vector AI
Senior Backend Engineer, Search & Vector AI

ClickUp • United States

On-site
USD 250,000 - 300,000
Staff Backend Engineer, Search & Vector AI
Staff Backend Engineer, Search & Vector AI

ClickUp • United States

On-site
USD 120,000 - 160,000
Senior Backend Search Engineer: Vector & AI
Senior Backend Search Engineer: Vector & AI

ClickUp • United States

On-site
USD 100,000 - 140,000
Staff Backend Engineer, Search — Vector & OpenSearch Expert
Staff Backend Engineer, Search — Vector & OpenSearch Expert

Apply • United States

Remote
USD 120,000 - 160,000
Senior Backend Engineer, Search
Senior Backend Engineer, Search

ClickUp • United States

On-site
USD 100,000 - 140,000
Senior Search Engineer – AI/IR & Vector Tech (Remote)
Senior Search Engineer – AI/IR & Vector Tech (Remote)

InvestedintheMission • United States

Remote
USD 150,000 - 215,000
Health, dental, and vision
Remote-friendly with WeWork access
Unlimited PTO
+5
Remote Senior AI Platform Engineer
Remote Senior AI Platform Engineer

Showcify • United States

Remote
USD 180,000 - 240,000
Remote-friendly
Senior ML Engineer – Ranking & Retrieval at Scale
Senior ML Engineer – Ranking & Retrieval at Scale

ClickUp • United States

On-site
USD 200,000 - 250,000