About the role
<div class="content-intro"><p>At Algolia, we’re proud to be a pioneer and market leader in AI Search, empowering 17,000+ businesses to deliver blazing-fast, predictive search and browse experiences at internet scale. Every week, we power over 30 billion search requests — four times more than Microsoft Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Yandex, and DuckDuckGo combined.</p> <p>In 2021, we raised $150 million in Series D funding, quadrupling our valuation to $2.25 billion. This strong foundation enables us to keep investing in our market-leading platform and serving incredible customers like Under Armour, PetSmart, Stripe, Gymshark, and Walgreens.</p></div><div> <p>We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the search team. We are responsible the cloud-based scalable architecture for NeuralSearch, our AI search engine, which incorporates both keyword and vector search. Our work consists of distributed components which orchestrate the building and storage of indices containing customer data and then querying that data to return search results. The role requires understanding and solving the challenges that come with complex distributed systems.</p> <p>The team is composed of engineers, most of whom are fully remote, with different skill sets and backgrounds. Your experience, your knowledge and your perspective will add to this diversity and help the team deliver products that make a difference.</p> <p><strong>YOU WILL:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Be a key contributor to the design and development of Search and Indexing</li> <li>Be responsible for operations for Search including participation in out-of-hours on-call rota</li> <li>Work with a full-remote team, with the option to be either full-remote, hybrid or office based (Paris) yourself</li> <li>Be responsible for the quality and soundness of the system</li> <li>Share your expertise on distributed systems</li> <li>Work with other teams to identify, troubleshoot and resolve high impact issues</li> </ul> <p><strong>YOU MIGHT BE A FIT IF YOU HAVE:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Experience designing and operating distributed systems in production</li> <li>Experience working with large datasets and high traffic</li> <li>Rigor in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices</li> <li>Excellent spoken and written English skills</li> <li>Experience at our current stage and beyond ($50-200M ARR range, high growth, lots of change and building internal infrastructure).</li> </ul> <p><strong>NICE TO HAVE:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Experience in Go</li> <li>Experience in Kubernetes</li> <li>Sensitivity to Site Reliability Engineering</li> </ul> </div> &l