Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Search
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Job description
Site Reliability Engineer on the Search team, responsible for the cloud-based scalable architecture behind NeuralSearch, Algolia's AI search engine combining keyword and vector search. The role involves designing and operating distributed systems and sharing on-call operations responsibility.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote · Paris, France
- Languages
- English
- Pay
- EUR 70,000 – 97,000 / year
What you'll do
- Be a key contributor to the design and development of the Search and Indexing systems
- Be responsible for operations for the Search system 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) yourself
- Be responsible for the quality and soundness of the system
- Share your expertise on distributed systems
- Work with other teams to identify, troubleshoot and resolve high impact issues
What we're looking for
- 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 our current stage and beyond ($50-200M ARR range, high growth, lots of change and building internal infrastructure)
- Experience in Kubernetes
Nice to have
- Experience in Go
Your team
Search team
Responsible for the cloud-based scalable architecture for NeuralSearch, an AI search engine incorporating both keyword and vector search; composed of engineers, most of whom are fully remote, with different skill sets and backgrounds.
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About Algolia
The retrieval intelligence layer that turns intent into trusted, decision-grade outcomes
Algolia is the retrieval intelligence layer that turns intent into trusted, decision-grade outcomes. Powering more than 1.7 trillion queries a year for over 18,000 customers with millisecond latency and 99.999% reliability, we are the recognized leader for Search and Product Discovery by top industry analyst firms. The Algolia platform turns a company's products, content, and business rules into data that humans, applications and AI agents can act upon.
Mission
To power search and discovery with ease
Key facts
- Search and Product Discovery technology
- Powering more than 1.7 trillion queries a year
- Over 18,000 customers
- Millisecond latency and 99.999% reliability
- Recognized leader for Search and Product Discovery by top industry analyst firms
- Offices in Paris, NYC, London, Sydney and Bucharest
What they value
- GRIT - Problem-solving and perseverance capability in an ever-changing and growing environment
- TRUST - Willingness to trust our co-workers and to take ownership
- CANDOR - Ability to receive and give constructive feedback
- CARE - Genuine care about other team members, our clients and the decisions we make in the company
- HUMILITY - Aptitude for learning from others, putting ego aside