Engineering System Administrator, Algolia
2-3 days a week in office
Site search and discovery powered by AI
Open for applications
Site search and discovery powered by AI
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
2-3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Algolia's mission is to change the way people interact with data.
Role
Who you are
- You want to work in an international environment
- You value the strength diversity provides
- You love being part of a team that exists in the operations nexus
- You are excited to support a primarily remote organisation
- You possess an extensive Software Development background
- You prioritise tasks effectively and self-initiate completion
- You build relationships with non-IT stakeholders efficiently
- You are adaptable in a fast-changing environment
- You can demonstrate excellent communication skills
- Excellent spoken and written English & French language skills
- A Degree in Computer Science, IT or its equivalent
- 3+ years of technical support or project experience
- 4+ years managing SaaS environments
- This is a FTE role
What the job involves
- We are looking for an Engineering System Administrator to join the IT team with a primary focus on owning and administering SaaS tools for our Product and Engineering teams
- This is a succession position that will be split 50/50 in application development and engineering SaaS stack management
- This position may have up to 10% travel
- Own and deliver best-in-class configuration and administration for GitHub and Datadog over the next 9 - 12 months
- After GitHub and Datadog mastering, design and improve of current Enterprise IAM standards to the R&D application stack
- Manage internal stakeholder and vendor relationships while building processes that align to business needs
- Expand IT’s operational excellence to partner teams within the R&D organization
- Learn the complex SaaS environment inside of Algolia from an automation and stack management perspective
- Propose improvements in stack maintenance and execute them
- Identify ideal targets for procurement and sunset
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.
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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
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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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