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

ClickUp; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

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.