Staff Search Engineer - Scale Real-Time Go & Elasticsearch

CreatorIQ; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 188,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work model

Learning platform access

Surprise meal stipends

Wellness allowance

Paid parental leave

Health benefits

401k (USA)

Job summary

CreatorIQ is seeking a Staff Search Engineer to lead the design and evolution of its real-time search platform. You will architect Elasticsearch clusters, develop high-performance Go APIs, and ensure scalable, reliable operation for 30M profiles and billions of posts.

The role blends hands-on development with technical leadership, guiding engineers and shaping architecture for a fast, dependable search experience. Strong Go and Elasticsearch skills are required.

Qualifications

• 7–10+ years of software development experience with a strong CS background.
• 3+ years of Elasticsearch experience or similar
• Design for high-load, scalable back-end services
• Deep knowledge of Elasticsearch and AWS infrastructure
• Golang development experience or willingness to learn
• REST API development, frameworks, testing, and GIT
• Proficiency in Python, PHP, JavaScript/Node.js, Java
• Experience with CI/CD and Agile methodologies
• Strong English communication in an international team

Responsibilities

• Lead backend development to meet evolving product needs.
• Contribute through all stages from conception to deployment and scaling.
• Design, implement, and maintain Elasticsearch environments with performance goals.
• Collaborate with product managers, architects and engineers on user needs.
• Uphold high standards for clean, testable, maintainable code.
• Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and process refinement.
• Foster ownership and accountability across the team

Skills

Backend design

Code reviews

English communication

Technical leadership

Education

BS in Computer Science

Tools

Go

Typescript

Elasticsearch

AWS

Java

MSSQL

AWS Redshift

CloudWatch

SQS

Lambdas

Job description

CreatorIQ is seeking a Staff Search Engineer to lead the design and evolution of its real-time search platform. You will architect Elasticsearch clusters, develop high-performance Go APIs, and ensure scalable, reliable operation for 30M profiles and billions of posts.

The role blends hands-on development with technical leadership, guiding engineers and shaping architecture for a fast, dependable search experience. Strong Go and Elasticsearch skills are required.