Software Engineer - Search Platform
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.
We are looking for a Software Engineer to join the Search team. We are responsible for 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.
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.
YOU WILL:
Be a key contributor to the design and development of the Search and Indexing systems
Be responsible for operations for the Search 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
YOU MIGHT BE A FIT IF YOU HAVE:
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).
NICE TO HAVE:
Experience in Go
Experience in Kubernetes
Sensitivity to Site Reliability Engineering
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The annual base salary compensation range for this role reflects market pay data within this location. The exact compensation offered for this role may vary depending on specific location and job-related knowledge, technical skills, and experience; and is only one part of our Total Rewards philosophy to compensate and recognize employees for their work.
Base Salary Pay Range
€52.500—€73.000 EUR