Staff Software Engineer, Events

Summary

Join Algolia's Events team as a Staff Software Engineer and play a pivotal role in guiding the technical strategy, architecture, and execution of our customer-facing Events platform. Lead the design and delivery of complex projects, ensuring a robust, scalable, and easy-to-integrate API. You will rapidly onboard to an existing codebase, shape architectural decisions impacting multiple teams, and mentor engineers. Remove bottlenecks and ensure efficient team operations. Collaborate with product managers, frontend engineers, and infrastructure teams to deliver customer-delight features. This role offers significant personal and professional growth opportunities within a collaborative and high-trust environment.

Requirements

• Proven experience in backend systems at scale, ideally in Go
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, APIs, and event ingestion pipelines
• Demonstrated ability to navigate and improve existing large-scale codebases quickly
• Experience leading cross-team projects with clear technical strategy and measurable outcomes
• Track record of mentoring and uplifting engineering teams

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of complex, cross-team projects, ensuring the API is robust, scalable, and easy to integrate
• Rapidly onboard to an existing, production-grade codebase, and help your team do the same
• Shape architectural decisions that impact not just the Events team, but multiple teams across Algolia
• Mentor engineers, helping them grow their technical skills and confidence while fostering a collaborative, high-trust culture
• Remove bottlenecks and ensure the team operates without single points of failure
• Work closely with product managers, frontend engineers, and infrastructure teams to align priorities and deliver features that delight our customers

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with GCP and Kubernetes in production environments
• Exposure to React, Typescript, and Ruby on Rails
• Familiarity with analytics, telemetry, or personalization data flows
• Experience in migrating or re-architecting existing systems

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