Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Algolia's Metis team as a Senior Software Engineer and contribute to the design and development of our cloud-based, scalable architecture for NeuralSearch. You will be responsible for operations, including on-call duties, and ensuring the system's quality. Work with a fully remote team, with the option of being fully remote, hybrid, or office-based in Paris. Share your expertise in distributed systems and collaborate with other teams to resolve critical issues. The ideal candidate possesses experience in designing and operating distributed systems, working with large datasets and high traffic, and adhering to high code quality standards. Algolia offers a flexible workplace strategy, empowering employees to choose their work location and schedule.

Requirements

• 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)

Responsibilities

• Be a key contributor to the design and development of the Metis system
• Be responsible for operations for the Metis 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Go
• Experience in Kubernetes
• Sensitivity to Site Reliability Engineering

Benefits

• 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
• While we have a global presence with physical offices in Paris, NYC, London, Sydney and Bucharest, we also offer many of our team members the option to work remotely either as fully remote or hybrid-remote employees