Senior SRE - AI Platform, Kubernetes & Cloud Reliability

Algolia, Inc.; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 97,000; Full time

Job summary

Algolia in Paris is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to own and scale production infrastructure that supports AI-powered workloads. You will design Kubernetes-based platforms, implement reliability through SLOs and observability, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to keep services blazing fast and highly available.

This role emphasizes automation, cost-conscious engineering and mentoring; you will drive improvements across networking, databases, and compute, while shaping

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on production experience with at least one major cloud provider (GCP, AWS or Azure).
• Extensive experience designing and operating Kubernetes and cloud-native production systems at scale.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, networking and reliability engineering.
• Experience operating business-critical systems with high availability, scalability and operational requirements.
• Ability to own ambiguous cross-team technical problems and drive them to measurable outcomes.
• Strong automation mindset balancing reliability, engineering velocity and cost.
• Excellent written and spoken English.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve production infrastructure supporting AI-related workloads and services at scale
• Design and operate highly available Kubernetes-based platforms
• Drive reliability through SLOs, observability, capacity planning and production guardrails
• Lead complex production investigations and turn findings into durable architectural improvements
• Improve shared infrastructure across networking, databases, service communication and compute
• Build better CI/CD, progressive delivery, automation and developer experience
• Drive cloud infrastructure efficiency and FinOps initiatives
• Participate in and improve on-call and incident response
• Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar for reliability and production engineering

Skills

Cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure)

Kubernetes on production systems

Distributed systems & networking

High availability & scalability

Ambiguity ownership

Automation mindset

English proficiency

Tools

Go

Python

Job description

Algolia in Paris is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to own and scale production infrastructure that supports AI-powered workloads. You will design Kubernetes-based platforms, implement reliability through SLOs and observability, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to keep services blazing fast and highly available.

This role emphasizes automation, cost-conscious engineering and mentoring; you will drive improvements across networking, databases, and compute, while shaping