Staff Backend Engineer, Search

What this role involves

ClickUp is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer for the Search squad. The role involves designing, optimizing, and scaling search infrastructure using Postgres and OpenSearch, focusing on real-time search ingestion and serving, improving relevance, and integrating AI/vector search capabilities.

Skills this posting asks for

• opensearch
• elasticsearch
• postgres
• typescript
• vector search
• semantic search
• machine learning
• nlp
• search relevance
• real-time indexing
• query parsing
• search quality measurement

Requirements

• 7 years of experience
• Level: staff
• Remote policy: remote

From the employer’s posting

At ClickUp, we're building the future of work: the first truly converged AI workspace unifying tasks, docs, chat, calendar, and enterprise search, all supercharged by context-driven AI. We are an AI-native company. Every team member is expected to leverage AI daily, and we evaluate AI fluency as pa…