Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Algolia
PaaS
Site search and discovery powered by AI
Open for applications
Site search and discovery powered by AI
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Algolia's mission is to change the way people interact with data.
Role
Who you are
- Strong knowledge of programming language Golang and Python and familiar with software craftsmanship. Knowledge on Ruby is a plus
- Experience designing and building API Management and Kubernetes based architecture
- Experience building and operating distributed systems at scale
- Experience on CI/CD setup and architecture. Strong knowledge on Github Actions, Circle-CI or alternatives is expected
- Experience designing new applications with reliability, operability, and availability in mind
- Experience with Public Cloud Providers such as GCP, AWS or Microsoft Azure, and administration of Kubernetes
- Excellent communication and organisation skills
- 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
What the job involves
- The Platform as a Service (PaaS) team is dedicated to empowering development teams by creating toolchains, guidelines, and standards. Our focus is on enabling seamless automation and CI/CD, comprehensive observability, and unwavering reliability in a secured cloud-native environment
- The Staff Engineer position within the Platform As a Service team offers a compelling opportunity for an adept professional with a rich background in architecting, constructing, and managing scalable infrastructures
- This role specifically concentrates on three key areas: CI/CD, Observability, and application hosting
- As a senior member of the Platform As a Service team, you will wield significant influence over Algolia’s Search Products
- Your responsibilities will revolve around crafting and executing systems pivotal to ensuring reliability, scalability, and cost optimisation
- You will be instrumental in architecting robust CI/CD pipelines, establishing comprehensive observability frameworks, and managing hosting solutions focused on API Management and micro-services management
- Moreover, as a expert within the team, you will actively participate in mentoring and guiding fellow team members, fostering a culture of collaboration and excellence
- In addition, this role entails actively engaging in cross-team collaboration, spearheading projects alongside SREs and SWEs
- Design and deploy a cloud-native API Management to boost platform scalability, security, and reliability, while expediting new feature setup for swift and seamless onboarding of development teams
- Spearhead the design and implementation of a robust and scalable CI/CD toolchain, serving as a centralised build factory to streamline development processes and ensure consistent quality across all services hosted on the product platform
- Lead the development and deployment of comprehensive observability standards and automation solutions, empowering teams with actionable insights and enabling proactive resolution of issues, enhancing overall system reliability and performance
- Drive the evolution and maintenance of a Kubernetes-based architecture, optimising resource utilisation, enhancing fault tolerance, and ensuring the platform's ability to meet evolving demands efficiently and effectively
- You provide guidance and mentorship to other SRE team members, helping them to develop their skills and knowledge of best practices in site reliability engineering
- You establish and enforce engineering processes and best practices that ensure high-quality, reliable, and scalable systems, and you work with other teams to promote the adoption of these processes and practices across the organization
- You collaborate with senior leadership to shape the vision and direction of the company (cloud) infrastructures, and you help drive the development of SRE-specific strategies and initiatives that align with business objectives
- You build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders across the organization, and you represent the SRE organization in cross-functional meetings and discussions
Our take
While in-site searching has been available for some time from web search servers such as Google and Bing, its functionality is limited due to it relying on general web scraping techniques which can miss relevant information. By contrast Algolia indexes only the company's site, allowing its search to serve accurate results extremely swiftly, which helps to drive sales conversions aside from making sites far more usable. The efficacy of this solution can be seen from its customer base of over 10,000 companies including the likes of Slack, Zendesk and Lacoste.
To diversify and increase the product range, Algolia have expanded into other real-time APIs such as product recommendations available for eCommerce websites. With the company performing extremely well over the last few years, Algolia have recruited key senior executives to futher its growth. As the company continues to scale it seems likely that an IPO is not too distant a prospect.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
33% female employees
-3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jul 2021
$150m
SERIES D
Oct 2019
$110m
SERIES C
Total funding: $334m
Company benefits
- Health Insurance
- Mental Health Care
- Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Life Insurance
Company values
- Grit - We thrive outside of our comfort zone, pushing ourselves to go ever further. We think long-term and constantly strive to be better, even if things don't always go as expected
- Trust - We trust each other just as we trust our users. We earn that trust by listening to each other, following through with our commitments and keeping our words
- Care - We want the best for our customers, community & colleagues. We go above and beyond to make sure they are happy
- Candor - We are open and honest. We give each other praise and criticism because we want to challenge each other and help one another grow
- Humility - We want our teammates to succeed as much as we do ourselves. We believe each team member is as important as the other and we approach each new challenge knowing that we may not have all the answer
Company HQ
Barron Park, Palo Alto, CA
Articles
Leadership
Bernadette Nixon
(CEO, not founder)Was previously CEO of Alfresco. Before that, was CRO at SDL and SVP & GM for OpenText
People progressing
Joined as an Account Executive. Promoted to Senior Account Executive after 1 year. They have been promoted to Director of Sales, Northern Europe.
Joined as an Enterprise Account Executive. Promoted to Director of Enterprise Sales after 2 years. Then promoted again to Head of Sales after 1 year. They are currently the Vice President of Sales for EMEA & APAC regions.
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