Raydar
Search Engineer
$235K–$260K
San Francisco, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 12, 2026
- Experience
- At least 3 years in the specified search-engine ownership role.
About the job
Own and improve a large-scale search platform, spanning retrieval relevance, backend services, indexing, query serving, and operations.
What you'll do
- Improve search result quality and ranking; build data collection, indexing, and query-serving components.
- Reduce query response times and costs as traffic grows.
- Own services from design through launch, monitoring, and ongoing refinement; collaborate on technical plans.
What they ask for
- At least 3 years as primary owner of indexing and query-serving layers for a live search engine at meaningful scale.
- Demonstrated ranking improvements with measured business or quality results.
- Practical experience tuning relevance using techniques such as keyword scoring, embedding-based retrieval, and result re-ordering on an engine you run.
- Backend programming skills in Go, Rust, Python, or a comparable language; able to work on-site five days a week in San Francisco or Toronto, or relocate before starting.
Nice to have
- Experience at a company where search is the main product, such as web search, AI-powered search, or large marketplace search.
- Experience at a young, rapidly growing company.
Pay
USD 235,000 to 260,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Go, Rust, Python
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