[Remote] Staff Software Engineer – Elasticsearch Platform

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Dice is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the design and evolution of a real-time search platform. This role involves architecting and maintaining Elasticsearch clusters, building high-performance APIs in Go, and ensuring the scalability and reliability of search at massive scale while mentoring engineers and guiding architecture decisions.

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

Skills

• 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
• 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

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