Software Engineer, Algolia

• 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)

Desirable

• We are looking for a Software Engineer to join the Metis team
• We are responsible for Metis, the cloud-based scalable architecture for NeuralSearch, our AI search engine, which incorporates both keyword and vector search
• Metis 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
• Be a key contributor to the design and development of the Metis system
• Be responsible for operations for the Metis 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