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Staff Backend Engineer, Search

United States🌐 Remote💼 Full-time🗓 2026-06-17 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design, optimize, and scale real-time search infrastructure and vector search capabilities for an AI-native converged workspace.

Role type

Senior IC backend search engineer

Builds

Real-time search ingestion and serving systems, vector search features

Domain

Productivity software, search infrastructure, AI/ML

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

OpenSearch, ElasticSearch, high-scale real-time data ingestion, query parsing optimization, indexing optimization, relevance tuning, measurement frameworks, vector search, backend services architecture

Preferred skills

Search ranking algorithms, information retrieval, vector embeddings, semantic search, TypeScript backend, machine learning for NLP

Technologies

Postgres, OpenSearch, ElasticSearch, TypeScript

Responsibilities

Design and implement robust search solutions that scale, improve search relevance and speed, enhance real-time indexing pipelines, build vector search capabilities, collaborate on AI feature integration, troubleshoot complex search issues

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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