Senior Site Reliability Engineer

At Algolia, we’re proud to be a pioneer and market leader in AI Search, empowering 17,000+ businesses to deliver blazing-fast, predictive search and browse experiences at internet scale. Every week, we power over 30 billion search requests — four times more than Microsoft Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Yandex, and DuckDuckGo combined. 25 billion.

This strong foundation enables us to keep investing in our market-leading platform and serving incredible customers like Under Armour, PetSmart, Stripe, Gymshark, and Walgreens. Algolia is set to enable every company to create world-class Search and Discovery experiences with an API-first approach. 5 trillion searches a year, for 10K+ customers all over the world.

If you're a problem solver, able to think outside the box and eager to nurture others and learn from them, then this is your challenge! The Team 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 Opportunity 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.

Your role will include 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 You might be a good fit if you have 5 years experience in a scalable environment 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 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 #LI-Remote Algolia does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, military status, veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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