Site Reliability Engineer, Fleet

Algolia is set to enable every company to create world-class Search and Discovery experiences with an API-first approach. Performance and Scalability is at the heart of our mission: we power 1.5 trillion searches a year, for 10K+ customers all over the world. 

If you're a problem solver, able to think outside the box and eager to nurture others and learn from them, then this is your challenge!

The Team

The Fleet teams are Site Reliability engineering teams spreaded through EMEA and APAC focusing on one thing: the search products should always be available. To make this possible, the fleet team creates pragmatic solutions to optimize the Search Products availability and costs at scale, depending on the needs of the customer, the product teams, and the different engineering teams that deliver a unique Search Experience to our customers.

The Opportunity

The team is looking for an individual who has a solid understanding of building and operating scalable architectures, with strong collaboration skills across teams and time zones. You will contribute to the delivery of solutions that support other engineering teams and will have a direct impact on the success of Algolia's Search Products. 

In this role, you'll help design and implement systems focused on reliability, scalability, and cost optimization, while also having opportunities to grow your skills and collaborate with team members.

Your role will include

• Operate the Search Products, automating the first response
• Build components that improve reliability and performance
• Contributing to efforts to reduce infrastructure costs
• Compute the SLO and the error budget of the product you operate
• Reduce the toil and the technical debt by automating and increasing the quality
• Manage Incidents and Customer Requests in a follow the sun model

You might be a good fit if you have

• Knowledge of at least one programming language (Python, Golang, Ruby) and familiar with software craftsmanship. Knowledge of Lua is a plus
• Experience in building and operating distributed systems
• Experience working with APIs
• A focus on designing reliable, operable, and available applications
• Familiarity with Public Cloud Providers like GCP, AWS, or Microsoft Azure, and Kubernetes
• A good understanding of Linux system administration, networking, and troubleshooting
• Strong communication and organizational skills

Team’s current stack:

• Golang, Ruby, Python, Github Actions, CircleCI, Terraform, Chef
• Linux, Kubernetes
• Bare Metal Servers & Cloud on AWS & Azure

WE’RE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WHO CAN LIVE OUR VALUES:

• • GRIT - Problem-solving and perseverance capability in an ever-changing and growing environment.
  • TRUST - Willingness to trust our co-workers and to take ownership.
  • CANDOR - Ability to receive and give constructive feedback.
  • CARE - Genuine care about other team members, our clients and the decisions we make in the company.
  • HUMILITY - Aptitude for learning from others, putting ego aside.

REMOTE STRATEGY:

Algolia’s flexible workplace model is designed to empower all Algolians to fulfill our mission to power search and discovery with ease. We place an emphasis on an individual’s impact, contribution, and output, over their physical location. Algolia is a high-trust environment and our team members have the autonomy to choose where they want to work and when. We know community comes in many forms and strive to create opportunities for intentional in-person connection in our offices and virtually for our remote colleagues around the world. 

We have a global presence with physical offices in Paris, NYC, London, Sydney and Bucharest.

ABOUT US:

Algolia prides itself on being a pioneer and market leader offering an AI Search solution that empowers 17,000+ businesses to compose customer experiences at internet scale that predict what their users want with blazing fast search and web browse experience. Algolia powers more than 30 billion search requests a week – four times more than Microsoft Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Yandex and DuckDuckGo combined.

Algolia is part of a cadre of innovative new companies that are driving the next generation of software development, creating APIs that make developers’ lives easier; solutions that are better than building from scratch and better than having to tweak monolithic SaaS solutions.

In 2021, the company closed $150 million in series D funding and quadrupled its post-money valuation of $2.25 billion. Being well capitalized enables Algolia to continue to invest in its market leading platform, to better serve its thousands of customers–including Under Armor, Petsmart, Stripe, Gymshark, and Walgreens, to name just a few. 

WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR:

We’re looking for talented, passionate people to build the world’s best search & discovery technology. As an ownership-driven company, we seek team members who thrive within an environment based on autonomy and diversity. We're committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace. We care about each other and the world around us, and embrace talented people regardless of their race, age, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, color, veteran status, disability and socioeconomic background.

READY TO APPLY?

If you share our values and our enthusiasm for building the world’s best search & discovery technology, we’d love to review your application!