Site Reliability Engineer, IaaS

About the role

Algolia is building a unified cloud and Kubernetes platform to replace its long-standing fleet of bare-metal servers, so that engineers can provision, secure, operate, observe, upgrade and scale production infrastructure safely. As a P3 Site Reliability Engineer in IaaS, you will help build the cloud baseline and reliable lifecycle capabilities that let teams operate and migrate workloads on this platform, working across cloud foundations, Kubernetes, automation, reliability and large-scale production operations.

Key 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.
• Contribute to reliable, repeatable cloud and cluster lifecycle operations.
• Help build self-service capabilities, reusable modules and clear documentation.
• Reduce manual work and configuration drift through automation, testing, GitOps practices and standardisation.
• Use automation and AI-assisted engineering tools where appropriate.
• Improve observability, monitoring, alerting, capacity management and operational documentation.
• Investigate production issues, take part in the on-call rotation and turn lessons learned into improvements.
• Work with Infrastructure, Security, FinOps and engineering teams.

Required profile

• Hands-on production knowledge of AWS or GCP.
• Practical Kubernetes knowledge and an interest in running it in production.
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code, ideally Terraform.
• Programming or scripting skills in Python, Go or an equivalent language.
• Strong Linux and networking fundamentals.
• Interest in reliability, automation and solving production problems.
• Comfort adopting AI-assisted engineering tools with sound judgement for critical systems.
• Clear communication with a distributed team and excellent spoken and written English.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with more than one public cloud provider.
• GitOps or policy-as-code tooling such as Argo CD, Helm, OPA or Kyverno.
• Cloud migration, platform engineering or large-scale infrastructure transformation experience.

The annual base salary range is EUR 56,508 to EUR 78,540. Algolia offers a flexible workplace model, with options for fully remote or hybrid-remote work.