Senior Software Engineer, Connectors Platform

Algolia, Inc.; Paris (KY); Remote; USD 76,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Algolia is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Connectors Platform Team to build and scale data ingestion, transformation, and enrichment workflows. You will help customers ingest data securely and at scale, enabling reliable AI-enabled search and discovery across diverse data sources.

The role emphasizes Go-based distributed systems, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Google Cloud, with a focus on reliability, performance, and maintainability.

Qualifications

• Proven experience building and operating high‑traffic production systems in Go.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, and Google Cloud.
• Clear, collaborative communication in English.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale distributed data ingestion services serving thousands of global businesses.
• Drive improvements to system reliability, scalability and throughput.
• Champion engineering excellence in testing, observability, and performance.
• Mentor teammates and help evolve the engineering culture as we grow.

Skills

Go

Kubernetes

Terraform

Google Cloud

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Google Cloud

Job description

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.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Connectors Platform Team, you’ll play a key role in building products that help our customers ingest, transform, and enrich their data with AI, making it simple to integrate into Algolia.
The Team & Platform

The Connectors Platform Team builds and scales the services that bring our customers’ data into Algolia, reliably, securely, and at scale.

Our work touches:

• E-commerce: powering real-time integrations with Shopify, Commercetools, BigCommerce
• Data Connectivity: connecting to sources like JSON, BigQuery, Supabase, MySQL, and beyond
• Data Transformations: allow customers to transform their data as it flows into Algolia
• AI Enrichment Pipelines: enhancing data to improve search relevance

We run on Go, Kubernetes, and Google Cloud, with an engineering culture built around reliability, performance, and simplicity.

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and scale distributed data ingestion services serving thousands of global businesses
• Drive improvements to system reliability, scalability and throughput
• Champion engineering excellence in testing, observability, and performance
• Mentor teammates and help evolve the engineering culture as we grow

You might be a fit if you

• Bring proven experience building and operating high-traffic production systems in Go
• Have strong hands‑on experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, and Google Cloud
• Love the challenge of designing resilient systems that handle high‑traffic workloads
• Care about writing high‑quality, tested, maintainable code
• Communicate clearly and collaboratively in English

#LI-Remote

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

€67.500 — €94.000 EUR

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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