Senior Software Engineer - Search Infrastructure

Job Description

Algolia is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Metis team in Paris. The Metis team is responsible for the cloud-based scalable architecture for NeuralSearch, Algolia's AI search engine, which incorporates both keyword and vector search. The ideal candidate will understand and solve the challenges that come with complex distributed systems and will add to the team's diversity to help deliver impactful products.

The role involves:

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

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 Algolia's current stage and beyond ($50-200M ARR range, high growth, lots of change and building internal infrastructure).

Algolia offers:

• Option to work fully remote, hybrid, or office-based in Paris.