Key skills
JavaScriptPythonJavaPHPGoGolangNoSQLNode.jsLaravelAWSAzureGoogle CloudKubernetesElasticsearchRESTfulGitVersion ControlAgileCI/CDLeadershipMentoringCommunicationCollaboration
About this role
Role: Staff Software Engineer Elasticsearch Platform Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States (Remote)
Job Description
About the Role
As a Staff Software Engineer, you ll lead the design and evolution of a real-time search platform the engine powering creator discovery across 30M profiles and billions of posts.
You ll architect and maintain Elasticsearch clusters, build high-performance APIs in Go, and ensure the scalability and reliability of search at massive scale. This role blends hands-on development with technical leadership, guiding architecture decisions and mentoring engineers to deliver a fast, reliable, and high-impact search experience for clients.
Key Responsibilities
Job Description
About the Role
As a Staff Software Engineer, you ll lead the design and evolution of a real-time search platform the engine powering creator discovery across 30M profiles and billions of posts.
You ll architect and maintain Elasticsearch clusters, build high-performance APIs in Go, and ensure the scalability and reliability of search at massive scale. This role blends hands-on development with technical leadership, guiding architecture decisions and mentoring engineers to deliver a fast, reliable, and high-impact search experience for clients.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and enhance backend services to meet evolving product requirements, ensuring robust, scalable, and high-performance solutions.
- Contribute across the entire product lifecycle from design and development to deployment, optimization, and scaling.
- Design, implement, and maintain Elasticsearch environments aligned with performance, reliability, and scalability goals.
- Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Architects, and Engineering teams to understand user needs and translate business requirements into technical solutions.
- Write clean, testable, and maintainable code while upholding engineering best practices.
- Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Drive technical excellence and foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and collaboration within the engineering team.
- Mentor and support engineers through technical guidance and architectural leadership.
Required Qualifications
- 7 10+ years of professional software development experience with a strong Computer Science foundation.
- 3+ years of recent hands-on experience with Elasticsearch (or similar search technologies).
- Proven ability to design, build, and operate complex distributed systems and high-load services.
- Deep understanding of Elasticsearch architecture, performance tuning, and operational best practices.
- Experience with AWS services and cloud-native application development.
- Strong Golang development experience, or demonstrated ability and willingness to quickly learn and adopt Go.
- Solid understanding of:
- Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
- Database concepts (RDBMS and NoSQL)
- Networking fundamentals and distributed system interactions
- Experience developing RESTful APIs and working with modern web application frameworks.
- Proficiency in one or more of the following technologies:
- Python
- PHP
- JavaScript (Node.js)
- Java
- Experience building scalable, high-performance backend services.
- Familiarity with:
- CI/CD pipelines
- Agile development methodologies
- Git-based version control workflows
- Strong verbal and written English communication skills in a global team environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with frameworks such as:
- Laravel
- Symfony
- Other enterprise-grade application frameworks
- Cloud certifications or hands-on experience with:
- AWS
- Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform)
- Microsoft Azure
- Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes.
- Passion for continuous learning and staying current with emerging technologies and industry trends.