Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Algolia
Platform as a Service
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 Programming Skills: Proficient in Golang and Python with a solid understanding of software craftsmanship. Knowledge of Ruby is a plus
- Experience in CI/CD Pipelines: Hands-on experience in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions, circleCI, or alternatives. Familiarity with best practices for ensuring build and deployment reliability
- Observability: Experience designing and implementing monitoring, alerting, and observability frameworks that provide actionable insights. Strong troubleshooting skills in production environments
- Kubernetes and Cloud Infrastructure: Proven experience in managing and optimizing Kubernetes-based architectures and working with public cloud providers such as GCP, AWS, or Microsoft Azure
- Distributed Systems Expertise: Experience in designing, building, and operating distributed systems at scale, with a focus on reliability, availability, and performance
- Mentorship and Leadership: Experience mentoring junior engineers and helping them grow. Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and contribute to strategic initiatives
- Problem-Solving Skills: Ability to independently solve complex technical problems with minimal supervision while collaborating effectively with other team members
- Excellent Communication and Organizational Skills: Strong ability to communicate complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences. Ability to organize and prioritize multiple projects
What the job involves
- The Senior Site Reliability Engineer (IC4) position within the Platform As a Service team presents an exciting opportunity for a seasoned professional to enhance scalable infrastructure with a focus on CI/CD, Observability, and application hosting
- In this role, you will bridge the gap between our junior and senior staff, playing a critical role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of Algolia’s Search products
- As a senior contributor, you will be responsible for building and optimizing systems that ensure the platform’s efficiency and reliability, while also mentoring junior engineers and collaborating across teams your work will be pivotal in improving infrastructure, enhancing observability standards, and streamlining CI/CD processes
- You will play a significant role in transitioning legacy systems to a modern Kubernetes-based architecture, contributing to long-term infrastructure strategies, and ensuring alignment with business needs
- CI/CD Development and Maintenance: Contribute to the design, optimization, and maintenance of the CI/CD pipelines to improve the speed, reliability, and efficiency of the development lifecycle. Assist in driving standardization across various services hosted on the platform
- Observability Enhancement: Lead efforts to improve the observability of critical systems, working closely with cross-functional teams to ensure actionable monitoring and alerting frameworks are in place. Help troubleshoot complex issues and optimize system reliability
- Kubernetes and Cloud Management: Contribute to the development and operation of our Kubernetes-based architecture. Ensure systems are resilient, scalable, and optimized for performance. Actively participate in enhancing cloud-based solutions for API management and microservices
- System Optimization and Scaling: Collaborate with team members to ensure system scalability, operability, and performance. Lead initiatives to optimize resource utilization, focusing on cost efficiency while maintaining high system availability
- Mentorship and Knowledge Sharing: Mentor mid-level engineers (IC3) by providing guidance on technical challenges and SRE best practices. Support team growth by fostering knowledge-sharing sessions and helping establish processes that drive operational excellence
- Cross-Team Collaboration: Work closely with product, software, and other SRE teams to ensure that platform goals align with broader business objectives. Drive initiatives aimed at enhancing platform stability, security, and scalability
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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