Senior Software Engineer - Search Infrastructure

Algolia
London
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Communication","Teamwork","Problem-solving","On-call","English"]

Senior Software Engineer to design and operate the Metis system, Algolia’s cloud-based, scalable architecture for NeuralSearch. You’ll contribute to distributed systems, manage on-call operations, collaborate with a fully remote team with options for full-remote, hybrid, or Paris office, and ensure system quality. Ideal for engineers experienced with large datasets, high-traffic environments, and high-code quality practices in a fast-growing AI search platform.

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Algolia
Algolia
2 years ago

Senior Software Engineer - Search Infrastructure

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Job Summary

Senior Software Engineer to design and operate the Metis system, Algolia’s cloud-based, scalable architecture for NeuralSearch. You’ll contribute to distributed systems, manage on-call operations, collaborate with a fully remote team with options for full-remote, hybrid, or Paris office, and ensure system quality. Ideal for engineers experienced with large datasets, high-traffic environments, and high-code quality practices in a fast-growing AI search platform.
Location: London
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Be a key contributor to the design and development of the Metis system
  • •Be responsible for operations for the Metis system including participation in out-of-hours on-call rota
  • •Work with a full-remote team, with the option to be either full-remote, hybrid or office based (Paris) yourself
  • •Be responsible for the quality and soundness of the system
  • •Share your expertise on distributed systems
  • •Work with other teams to identify, troubleshoot and resolve high impact issues

Key Requirements

  • •Experience designing and operating distributed systems in production
  • •Experience working with large datasets and high traffic
  • •Rigor in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices
  • •Excellent spoken and written English skills
  • •Experience at our current stage and beyond ($50-200M ARR range, high growth, lots of change and building internal infrastructure)
Experience:Distributed systemsAISearchCloud computing
Skills:CommunicationTeamworkProblem-solvingOn-callEnglish
Languages:English
Tech Stack:GoKubernetesDistributed systemsCloud

Company Brief

Algolia
Provides a hosted search and discovery API that enables developers and product teams to build fast, relevant search and discovery experiences across websites and applications with features like instant search, personalization, and analytics.
Industry: API Platforms
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series D
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2012
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