Senior SRE: AI Platform, Kubernetes & Cloud Reliability

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

Job summary

Algolia is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to own complex production systems and drive reliable, scalable infrastructure across AI-related workloads. You will design and operate Kubernetes-based platforms, implement SLOs and observability, and mentor engineers to raise the technical bar for reliability.

Join a high-trust, flexible workplace with global offices and remote options. We value autonomy, diversity, and collaboration, and offer a workplace where performance and impact are

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in production SRE and platform reliability.
• Proven ability to design and operate Kubernetes-based platforms at scale.
• Strong knowledge of reliability engineering, networking and distributed systems.
• Experience running business-critical systems with high availability and performance.
• Ability to own cross-team technical problems and drive outcomes.
• Strong automation mindset balancing reliability and velocity.
• Excellent written and spoken English.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve production infrastructure for AI-related workloads 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 providers

Kubernetes expertise

Distributed systems

English proficiency

Tools

Kubernetes

Go

Python

Job description

Algolia is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to own complex production systems and drive reliable, scalable infrastructure across AI-related workloads. You will design and operate Kubernetes-based platforms, implement SLOs and observability, and mentor engineers to raise the technical bar for reliability.

Join a high-trust, flexible workplace with global offices and remote options. We value autonomy, diversity, and collaboration, and offer a workplace where performance and impact are