Senior Data Engineer, Events

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.

The Team

The Events team owns Algolia’s customer-facing Events platform, the entry point for sending user interaction data into our system. These events drive improvements in analytics, personalization, and search relevance for thousands of customers. We are continuing to expand and improve this existing system, which means you’ll play a critical role in onboarding to a mature product, helping a newly built team grow in confidence, and shaping the future of this high-volume, real-time data pipeline.

The role will consist of:

As a Senior Data Engineer, you’ll help scale and evolve the backbone of Algolia’s Events platform. This means:

• Designing and maintaining reliable pipelines for ingesting and processing both real-time and batch data from diverse external sources (including Segment, Google Analytics, and direct customer integrations).
• Owning and optimizing systems that run at massive scale, ensuring low-latency event delivery and high reliability.
• Quickly getting up to speed with an established production system, and helping your teammates do the same.
• Partnering with backend, frontend, and product teams to align technical decisions with customer-facing needs.
• Contributing to architectural improvements that make our event ingestion platform more robust, efficient, and easy to extend.
• Sharing knowledge across the team and mentoring new engineers to help them grow.

You might be a fit if you have:

Must-haves

• Solid experience with data pipelines and event-driven architectures at scale.
• Proficiency in Go or another backend language, with the ability to quickly adapt to new codebases.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems, APIs, and messaging platforms like Pub/Sub.
• Hands-on experience with BigQuery or similar data warehouses for analytics.
• A track record of collaborating with cross-functional teams and contributing to production-critical systems.

Nice-to-haves

• Familiarity with GCP and Kubernetes in production environments.
• Exposure to frontend systems (React, Rails) and how they interact with backend data pipelines.
• Experience integrating with customer-facing APIs or analytics connectors.
• Background in onboarding to inherited systems and driving re-architecture where needed.

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.

Team’s current stack

Go backend on GCP and Kubernetes, pipelines built with BigQuery and Pub/Sub, integrating with a React + Rails frontend.

FLEXIBLE WORKPLACE 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 many of our team members have the autonomy to choose where they want to work and when.

While we have a global presence with physical offices in Paris, NYC, London, Sydney and Bucharest, we also offer many of our team members the option to work remotely either as fully remote or hybrid-remote employees. Please note that positions listed as "Remote" are only available for remote work within the specified country. Positions listed within a specific city are only available in that location - depending on the nature of the role it may be available with either a hybrid-remote or in-office schedule.

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!