Senior Back-end Engineer - Search Infrastructure

Senior Back-end Engineer - Search Infrastructure

At Algolia, we are passionate about helping developers & product teams connect their users with what matters most in milliseconds! Providing a first-class Search experience at scale is a challenging endeavor: users expect finding, in the blink of an eye, highly relevant items with little to no effort. The core Algolia's offering relies on a rock-solid Search engine, whose efficiency, configurability, and stability made the fame of Algolia. This engine is called to support an amount of data several orders of magnitude larger than what it currently handles. Today, the engine needs you to make it scale further, and to make it faster, smarter, and more powerful. The team is composed of engineers with different backgrounds and experience both in the industry and academia. Your experience, your knowledge, and your perspective will add to this diversity and help the team deliver products that make a difference.

YOU WILL:

1. Be a key contributor to the design, development, and ultimately operation of the Search engine system at scale.
2. Be responsible for the quality and soundness of the system.
3. Share your expertise on distributed systems.
4. Work with other teams to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve high impact issues.

YOU MIGHT BE A FIT IF YOU HAVE:

1. Experience designing and operating distributed systems in production.
2. Experience working with large datasets and high traffic.
3. Rigor in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices.
4. Excellent spoken and written English skills are required.
5. Experience at our current stage and beyond ($50-200M ARR range, high growth, lots of change and building internal infrastructure).

NICE TO HAVE:

1. Experience in Go.
2. Experience in Kubernetes.
3. Sensitivity to Site Reliability Engineering.

BENEFITS:

1. Private Medical Insurance.
2. Life and Disability Insurance.
3. Business Travel Insurance.
4. Relocation support.
5. Company Canteen (high standard).
6. Flexible work hours and flexible time off.

PERKS:

1. Competitive pay and equity.
2. Your choice of computer, phone, keyboard, headphones, you name it. Everything you need to be efficient.
3. Coaching and sponsorship to participate and speak at leading industry conferences.
4. Ongoing professional education opportunities through internal & external workshops, including public speaking, language learning (English/French).
5. Fun: we spend time together – team building, socializing, and making tools that encourage getting to know teammates across offices and continents.
6. Charitable contribution matching.
7. Unique referral rewards program: refer a candidate, and we’ll donate to your charity of choice.
8. Fully stocked kitchens.
9. Team workouts.
10. Meals & happy hours.

REMOTE STRATEGY: Algolia’s workplace strategy, Hybrid Remote, is designed to harness the power of the opportunities that remote work offers both employees and the company, while also providing an engaging in-office experience for the times when an employee is in an office. Our workplace approach reflects the belief that an employee’s impact, contribution, and output are more important than their physical location. The majority of employees will be able to choose if, and when, they come into an office on a regular basis. There will be times when our people are asked to come into an office for “moments that matter:” activities like critical planning meetings and team social gatherings. Beyond those events, 80% of our workforce may choose the location from where they work in the country in which they were hired. We have physical offices in San Francisco, NYC, Atlanta, Paris, London, Bucharest, and we will be opening a small office in Austin soon.

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