Software Engineer - Search Platform

Visa Hunt; Paris; Sur place; EUR 50 000 - 80 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Algolia is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Search team in Paris, with the flexibility to work fully remote, hybrid, or in-office. This position focuses on cloud-based architecture for their AI search engine, requiring expertise in designing and operating distributed systems.

The role includes contributing to the development of Search and Indexing systems, ensuring high quality and soundness, while collaborating with a diverse team to troubleshoot complex issues.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and operating distributed systems in production.
• Experience working with large datasets and handling high traffic.
• Rigor in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices.

Responsabilités

• Key contributor to the design and development of the Search and Indexing systems.
• Responsible for operations for the Search system including participation in out-of-hours on-call rota.
• Work with a full-remote team, tackling challenges of complex distributed systems.

Connaissances

Distributed systems design

Large datasets handling

High code quality

Automated testing

Excellent English skills

Experience in Go

Experience in Kubernetes

Sensitivity to Site Reliability Engineering

Description du poste

Requirements

• 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
• 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)
• (Desirable) Experience in Go
• (Desirable) Experience in Kubernetes
• (Desirable) Sensitivity to Site Reliability Engineering

What the job involves

• We are looking for a Software 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
• 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