Senior SRE, AI Platform: Scale Reliability & Kubernetes

Algolia, Inc.; Paris (TX); Remote; USD 80,000 - 111,000; Full time

Job summary

Algolia is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to own and evolve production systems, focusing on highly available Kubernetes-based platforms and AI-focused workloads. You will drive reliability, observability, and scalable infrastructure, collaborating across teams to deliver resilient services.

The role emphasizes independent problem ownership, strong automation, and mentorship, with a flexible workplace strategy that supports remote or hybrid work from multiple locations, including

Qualifications

• At least one major cloud provider experience (GCP, AWS or Azure) is required.
• Strong Kubernetes design and operations experience at scale.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and networking.
• Experience operating business-critical systems with high availability and reliability.
• Ability to own ambiguous, cross-team technical problems and drive them to outcomes.
• Strong automation mindset balancing reliability, velocity and cost.
• Excellent written and spoken English.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve production infrastructure supporting AI workloads and services at scale.
• Design and operate 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

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Distributed systems

Networking

Incident response

Automation

English fluency

Tools

Go

Python

Job description

Algolia is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to own and evolve production systems, focusing on highly available Kubernetes-based platforms and AI-focused workloads. You will drive reliability, observability, and scalable infrastructure, collaborating across teams to deliver resilient services.

The role emphasizes independent problem ownership, strong automation, and mentorship, with a flexible workplace strategy that supports remote or hybrid work from multiple locations, including