Senior SRE, AI Search & Distributed Systems (Remote)

Algolia, Inc.; Paris; Híbrido; EUR 90.000 - 130.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Algolia, a leader in AI-powered search, is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to own the design and operation of the Search and Indexing systems. You’ll contribute to reliability while supporting a full-remote team with optional hybrid or Paris office work.

You will share expertise on distributed systems and coordinate with other teams to resolve high-impact issues. The role emphasizes on-call responsibilities, system quality, and scalable architectures for NeuralSearch in a fast-growing

Formación

• Experience designing and operating distributed systems in production.
• Experience working with large datasets and high traffic.
• Rigor in code quality, automated testing and best practices.
• Excellent spoken and written English skills.
• Nice to have: Go programming language.

Responsabilidades

• Design and develop the Search and Indexing systems.
• Own operations for the Search system including on-call rota.
• Work with a fully remote team with options for remote, hybrid, or Paris-based work.
• Ensure the quality and soundness of the system.
• Share distributed systems expertise with the team.
• Collaborate with other teams to identify, troubleshoot and resolve high-impact issues.

Conocimientos

Distributed systems

Production experience

High traffic

Automated testing

English proficiency

Go

Descripción del empleo

Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Search

Paris, France

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. The result is trusted customer experiences with stronger conversions for measurable business impact.

We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join the Search team. We are responsible for the cloud-based scalable architecture for NeuralSearch, our AI search engine, which incorporates both keyword and vector search. Our work consists of distributed components which orchestrate the building and storage of indices containing customer data and then querying that data to return search results. The role requires understanding and solving the challenges that come with complex distributed systems.

The team is composed of engineers, most of whom are fully remote, with different skill sets and backgrounds. Your experience, your knowledge and your perspective will add to this diversity and help the team deliver products that make a difference.

YOU WILL:

• 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

YOU MIGHT BE A FIT IF YOU HAVE:

• 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).

NICE TO HAVE:

• Experience in Go

Algolia does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, military status, veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The annual base salary compensation range for this role reflects market pay data within this location. The exact compensation offered for this role may vary depending on specific location and job-related knowledge, technical skills, and experience; and is only one part of our Total Rewards philosophy to compensate and recognize employees for their work.

Base Salary Pay Range

FLEXIBLE WORKPLACE STRATEGY:

Algolia’s flexible workplace model is designed to empower all Algolians to fulfill our mission to power search and discovery with ease. We place an emphasis on an individual’s impact, contribution, and output, over their physical location. Algolia is a high-trust environment and many of our team members have the autonomy to choose where they want to work and when.

We have a global presence with offices in Paris, NYC, London, Sydney and Bucharest, however we also offer many of our team members the option to work remotely either as fully remote or hybrid-remote employees. Positions listed as "Remote" are only available for remote work within the specified country. Positions listed within a specific city are only available in that location - depending on the role it may be available with either a hybrid-remote or in-office schedule.

WE’RE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WHO CAN LIVE OUR VALUES:

• 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.

We’re looking for talented, passionate people to help build the world’s best search and discovery technology. We value autonomy, diversity, and collaboration. We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is respected and supported—regardless of race, age, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, color, veteran status, disability, or socioeconomic background.

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If you share our values and our enthusiasm for building the world’s best search & discovery technology, we’d love to review your application!

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