Senior Software Engineer - Search Infrastructure

1 month, 1 week ago
Full-time
Senior
Software Development
Algolia

Algolia

Algolia provides a hosted search platform that leverages AI to enhance user experience and developer engagement, enabling enterprises and developers to deliver fast, relevant search results across websites and mobile applications.

Internet Software & Services
251-1K
Founded 2012
$334M raised

Description

  • Contribute to the design and development of the Metis system.
  • Own operations for the Metis system, including participation in an out-of-hours on-call rota.
  • Work with a fully remote team across remote, hybrid, or office-based setups in Paris.
  • Ensure the quality and soundness of the system.
  • Share expertise on distributed systems.
  • Collaborate with other teams to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve high-impact issues.
  • Help orchestrate the building and storage of indices containing customer data and querying that data to return search results.

Requirements

  • Experience designing and operating distributed systems in production.
  • Experience working with large datasets and high traffic.
  • Strong rigor in high code quality, automated testing, and engineering best practices.
  • Excellent spoken and written English skills.
  • Experience working at a high-growth company in the $50-200M ARR range or beyond.
  • Experience in Go (nice to have).
  • Experience in Kubernetes (nice to have).
  • Sensitivity to Site Reliability Engineering practices (nice to have).

Benefits

  • Flexible workplace model with options for fully remote, hybrid-remote, or office-based work depending on the role.
  • Autonomy to choose where and when to work, with an emphasis on impact and output over physical location.
  • Global presence with offices in Paris, NYC, London, Sydney, and Bucharest.
  • Inclusive and supportive workplace that values diversity, collaboration, and respect.

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