Senior Software Engineer - Search Infrastructure

About the role

Algolia is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join its Search team, which owns the cloud-based scalable architecture of NeuralSearch, an AI search engine combining keyword and vector search. The team builds distributed components that orchestrate the creation and storage of indices containing customer data and then query them to return search results. Most team members are fully remote.

Key responsibilities

• Contribute to the design and development of search at Algolia
• Own search operations, including participation in an out-of-hours on-call rota
• Ensure the quality and soundness of the system
• Share expertise on distributed systems
• Work with other teams to identify, troubleshoot and resolve high-impact issues

Required profile

• Experience designing and operating distributed systems in production
• Experience working with large datasets and high traffic
• Rigor in code quality, automated testing and engineering best practices
• Excellent spoken and written English
• Experience at a company of similar size and growth stage (50-200M ARR)

Nice to have

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

The role is listed as remote, with the option to work full-time remotely, hybrid or in the Paris office. The stated base salary range is EUR 67,500 to 94,000.