Site Reliability Engineer, Algolia
Site search and discovery powered by AI
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Site search and discovery powered by AI
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Algolia's mission is to change the way people interact with data.
Role
Who you are
- Knowledge of at least one programming language (Python, Golang, Ruby) and you are familiar with software craftsmanship
- Experience working with APIs
- A focus on designing reliable, operable, and highly available applications
- Familiarity with at least Public Cloud Providers like GCP, AWS, or Microsoft Azure, and their Kubernetes service
- A good understanding of Linux system administration, networking, and troubleshooting
- Strong communication and organizational skills
- 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 Fleet team is a Site Reliability Engineering team focusing on one goal: the Search products should always be available
- To make this possible, the Fleet team creates pragmatic solutions to optimize the Search products availability and costs at scale, taking into account the needs of customers, the product teams, and the many engineering teams involved in delivering a unique Search Experience to our customers
- The team is looking for an individual who has a first experience of building and operating scalable architectures
- You will contribute to the delivery of solutions that support other engineering teams and will have a direct impact on the success of Algolia's Search products
- In this role, you'll help design and implement systems focused on reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency, while also having opportunities to grow your skills and collaborate with team members
- Operating the Search products, building self-healing and automated incident response mechanisms
- Building components that improve reliability and performance
- Monitoring and computing the SLO and the error budget of the product you operate
- Reducing the toil and the technical debt by automating tasks and increasing the quality of existing components
- Managing Incidents and Customer Requests
- Team’s current stack:
- Programming languages: Golang, Python, Ruby
- CI/CD:Github Actions, CircleCI
- IaC & configuration management:Terraform, Chef
- Platform: Linux, Kubernetes
- Hosting: Bare Metal Servers & Cloud on AWS & Azure
- Monitoring: Datadog & custom monitoring stack for our Search infrastructure
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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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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 HQ
Barron Park, Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Bernadette Nixon
(CEO, not founder)Was previously CEO of Alfresco. Before that, was CRO at SDL and SVP & GM for OpenText
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