Staff Search Engineer
Staff Search Engineer
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Job Description
Your impact at ClickUp
Core Responsibilities
- Design and implement robust search solutions that scale with our rapidly growing user base
- Improve search relevance accuracy and speed to deliver the most relevant results to users at blazing fast speeds
- Improve out real-time indexing pipelines to ensure search results remain up-to-date
- Create measurement frameworks to evaluate and improve search quality
- Build and enhance vector search capabilities to power next-generation search experiences
- Collaborate with AI backend and product teams to integrate search into new features
- Troubleshoot complex search-related issues at scale
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to engineering best practices
Technical requirements:
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field
- 7 years of experience as a search engineer or in a directly related role
- Strong expertise in search technologies particularly OpenSearch / ElasticSearch
- Experience measuring and optimizing search quality
- Experience with high-volume distributed data processing systems
- Proven ability to optimize query parsing indexing and relevance tuning for search systems
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively across teams
Preferred Qualifications:
- Hands-on experience with vector embeddings and semantic search implementations
- Experience with TypeScript in backend systems
- Track record of architecting search solutions that maintain performance under heavy load
- Experience applying machine learning and NLP to enhance search relevance
- Knowledge of information retrieval concepts and search evaluation metrics
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Salary and Benefits
At ClickUp we believe in transparency and fairness in compensation. The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Please note that the actual compensation for this position may vary and is dependent on factors such as geographic location interview performance years of experience education level and specific skills. We encourage candidates to discuss compensation expectations during the interview process to ensure alignment with their qualifications and our companys compensation philosophy.
This position is eligible for the following benefits and perks:
- Equity
- 401k
- Health Dental and Vision insurance
- Spending accounts
- Life & Disability
- Paid parental leave
- Flexible paid time off
- Enhanced employee assistance program
- Employee wellness stipend
- Professional development stipend
Unsure if you meet all the qualifications of this job description but are deeply excited about the role We hire based on ambition grit and a passion for improving the way people work. If you think ClickUp is the company for you we encourage you to apply!
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Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
