TELECOMMUTE Staff Software Engineer - Elasticsearch Platform

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., * 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.

• 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.