Senior Software Engineer - Search Infrastructure

Senior Software Engineer, Search

About

Algolia is a pioneer and market leader in AI Search, empowering 17,000+ businesses to deliver fast, predictive search and browse experiences. Algolia powers over 30 billion search requests weekly and has raised $150 million in Series D funding. They provide a search API used by thousands of customers in over 100 countries.

Responsibilities

• Be a key contributor to the design and development of search at Algolia.
• Be responsible for operations for search, including participation in out-of-hours on-call rota.
• Work with a full-remote team, with the option to be either full-remote, hybrid, or office-based (Paris).
• Be responsible for the quality and soundness of the system.
• Share expertise on distributed systems.
• Work with other teams to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve high-impact issues.

Requirements

• Experience designing and operating distributed systems in production.
• Experience working with large datasets and high traffic.
• Rigor in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices.
• Excellent spoken and written English skills.
• Experience at a company stage of $50-200M ARR with high growth and infrastructure building.
• Experience in Go is a plus.
• Experience in Kubernetes is a plus.
• Sensitivity to Site Reliability Engineering is a plus.