Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud & Kubernetes — Remote

Algolia, Inc.; Paris (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Algolia in the United States seeks a Site Reliability Engineer for the IaaS team to help build the next generation of production infrastructure. You will own cloud foundations, Kubernetes, and automation, delivering reliable, scalable platform capabilities for global customers.

The role requires hands-on AWS or GCP experience, Kubernetes in production, and IaC with Terraform, plus Python/Go scripting. A flexible remote/hybrid work model and strong collaboration across teams are offered.

Qualifications

• Hands-on production knowledge of AWS or GCP.
• Practical Kubernetes knowledge and production operations.
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code (Terraform).
• Programming or scripting in Python or Go.
• Strong Linux and networking fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve Cloud Baseline capabilities, including identity and access, networking, security, resource inventory, tagging, and auditability.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure as code and automation for cloud environments and Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Contribute to reliable, repeatable cloud and cluster lifecycle operations.
• Help build self-service capabilities, reusable modules, and clear documentation that make the safe path the easy path for platform consumers.
• Reduce manual work and configuration drift through automation, testing, GitOps practices, and standardisation.
• Use automation and AI-assisted engineering tools where appropriate to improve infrastructure analysis, documentation, and safe, repeatable changes.
• Improve observability, monitoring, alerting, capacity management, and operational documentation.
• Investigate production issues, participate in the on-call rotation, and turn lessons learned into lasting improvements.
• Work with Infrastructure, Security, FinOps, and engineering teams to deliver reliable, secure, and cost-aware platform capabilities.

Tools

Terraform

Argo CD

Helm

OPA

Kyverno

AWS or GCP

Kubernetes

Python

Go

Linux fundamentals

Networking fundamentals

Automation

Reliability

AI tooling

Job description

Algolia in the United States seeks a Site Reliability Engineer for the IaaS team to help build the next generation of production infrastructure. You will own cloud foundations, Kubernetes, and automation, delivering reliable, scalable platform capabilities for global customers.

The role requires hands-on AWS or GCP experience, Kubernetes in production, and IaC with Terraform, plus Python/Go scripting. A flexible remote/hybrid work model and strong collaboration across teams are offered.