Senior Software Engineer - Search Infrastructure

<div class="content-intro"><div><span id="m_8220454926977230902gmail-docs-internal-guid-9a9f34f4-7fff-014a-c97c-98ca90610a47">Algolia is the retrieval intelligence layer that turns intent into trusted, decision-grade outcomes. Powering more than 1.7 trillion queries a year for over 18,000 customers with millisecond latency and 99.999% reliability, we are the recognized leader for Search and Product Discovery by top industry analyst firms. The Algolia platform turns a company's products, content, and business rules into data that humans, applications and AI agents can act upon. The result is trusted customer experiences with stronger conversions for measurable business impact.</span></div> <div> </div></div><div> <p>Algolia was built to help users deliver an intuitive search-as-you-type experience on their websites and mobile apps. We provide a search API used by thousands of customers in more than 100 countries. Billions of search queries are answered every month thanks to the code we push into production every day.</p> <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 at Algolia</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> <div class="uil-fw-normal uil-ff-hind uil-fsz-16 lg:uil-fsz-18 uil-lh-bigger uil-color-grey-700"> <div class="uil-fw-normal uil-ff-hind uil-fsz-16 lg:uil-fsz-18 uil-lh-bigger uil-color-grey-700"> <p class="p1">#LI-Remote</p> </div> </div><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p>Algolia does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, military status, veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any ot