Senior Search Engineer – Remote, Real-Time AI Backend

Devconnectplatform; United States; Remote; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

ClickUp is seeking a Senior Search Engineer to design, optimize, and scale our real-time search platform built on Postgres and OpenSearch. You will own indexing pipelines, tuning, and vector search features to deliver blazing-fast, relevant results across the workspace.

Collaborate with AI, backend, and product teams to embed search into new features, troubleshoot at scale, and push performance under heavy load in a remote US setting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 5+ years of experience as a search engineer or in a related role.
• Hands-on production experience with OpenSearch or Elasticsearch.
• Experience with high-scale real-time data ingestion and search serving.

Responsibilities

• Design, optimize, and scale search infrastructure for real-time results.
• Improve search relevance, accuracy, and speed for blazing-fast results.
• Enhance real-time indexing pipelines to keep results up-to-date.
• Collaborate with AI, backend, and product teams to integrate search features.
• Troubleshoot complex search issues at scale.

Skills

OpenSearch

Elasticsearch

PostgreSQL

TypeScript

Vector search

Search relevance tuning

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Solr

Job description

ClickUp is seeking a Senior Search Engineer to design, optimize, and scale our real-time search platform built on Postgres and OpenSearch. You will own indexing pipelines, tuning, and vector search features to deliver blazing-fast, relevant results across the workspace.

Collaborate with AI, backend, and product teams to embed search into new features, troubleshoot at scale, and push performance under heavy load in a remote US setting.