# Search Engineer > Raydar · San Francisco, United States · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-12 **Salary:** USD 235,000–260,000 **Workplace:** on_site ## Description About the company Our client is a fast-growing software company. The role Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Take charge of the relevance and performance of a large-scale search platform, combining backend engineering with hands-on ranking work. The position carries full responsibility for services across their lifecycle, from initial design through live operation. What you'll do \- Lead efforts to improve the quality of results returned by a retrieval system. \- Build the data collection, indexing and query-serving components of a search offering. \- Bring down response times and the cost of each query as traffic increases. \- Take full responsibility for services from first design through launch, monitoring and ongoing refinement. \- Collaborate with search leadership and peers to shape the technical plan. ## Requirements What we're looking for \- At least 3 years as the primary owner of the indexing and query-serving layers of a live search engine operating at meaningful scale. \- A track record of ranking improvements you drove, with the measured business or quality result to show for it. \- Practical experience tuning result relevance with techniques such as keyword scoring, embedding-based retrieval and result re-ordering, on an engine you run. \- Backend programming skill in Go, Rust, Python or a comparable language. \- A balanced focus on speed, cost and correctness when running search services under heavy query load. \- Comfort turning loosely defined problems into working systems, preferring to release, measure and adjust. \- Ability to work on-site five days a week in San Francisco or Toronto, either already local or relocating before starting. Bonus points \- Background at a company where search is the main product, such as web search, AI-powered search or large marketplace search. \- Time spent at a young, rapidly growing company. ## Benefits Compensation and benefits \- Base salary: USD 235,000 to 260,000 per year \- Equity \- Health, dental and vision coverage \- Life and disability insurance \- Retirement plan \- Paid time off \- Paid parental leave Location and work model \- San Francisco, CA, United States or Toronto, ON, Canada \- On-site, five days a week \- Full-time ## Apply [Apply at Raydar](https://apply.workable.com/raydar/j/841A3B9FB2/apply) --- Powered by [Workable](https://www.workable.com)