Site Reliability Engineer, PaaS

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. In 2021, we raised $150 million in Series D funding, quadrupling our valuation to $2.25 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. The Team The Platform as a Service (PaaS) team is dedicated to empowering development teams by creating toolchains, guidelines, and standards. Our focus is on enabling seamless automation and CI/CD, comprehensive observability, and unwavering reliability in a secured cloud-native environment. The Opportunity The Site Reliability Engineer position within the Platform As a Service team provides a dynamic opportunity for a professional with foundational experience in maintaining and optimizing scalable infrastructures. This role specifically concentrates on three key areas: CI/CD, Observability, and application hosting. As a member of the Platform As a Service team, you will play a key role in supporting the reliability and scalability of Algolia’s Search Products. Your responsibilities will include operating components or features, ensuring proper monitoring and alerting are in place, and assisting in the transition from legacy systems. You will work on planning and accountability for the next quarter, demonstrating independence in problem-solving and minimal reliance on managers and senior team members. Your role will consist of: CI/CD Support and Optimization: Assist in the implementation and maintenance of a scalable CI/CD toolchain, contributing to the overall efficiency and reliability of development processes. Observability Implementation: Support the development and deployment of observability standards and solutions, providing teams with actionable insights to enhance system reliability. Kubernetes and Cloud Services Management: Help maintain and optimize Kubernetes-based architecture and cloud services, enhancing fault tolerance and resource utilization. Collaboration and Problem Solving: Work collaboratively with team members to identify and solve problems, reducing dependence on senior staff for guidance. Process Improvement: Contribute to establishing engineering processes and best practices to ensure high-quality, reliable, and scalable systems. You might be a fit if you have: Programming Skills: Basic to intermediate knowledge of programming languages such as Golang or Python, with an understanding of software craftsmanship. Familiarity with Ruby is a plus. Experience with CI/CD and Kubernetes: Experience in setting up and managing CI/CD pipelines and Kubernetes-based architectures. Knowledge of Distributed Systems: Exposure to operating distributed systems and understanding their challenges at a basic level. Public Cloud Experience: Familiarity with public cloud providers such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, or GCP. Problem-Solving Skills: Ability to independently identify and solve problems, demonstrating initiative and minimal reliance on senior team members. Communication and Organization Skills: Strong communication and organizational skills to effectively collaborate with team members and stakeholders. 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. The annual base salary compensation range for this role reflects market pay data within this location. The exact compensation offered for this role may vary depending on specific location and job-related knowledge, technical skills, and experience; and is only one part of our Total Rewards philosophy to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Base Salary Pay Range €56.500—€78.500 EUR FLEXIBLE WORKPLACE STRATEGY: Algolia’s flexible workplace model is designed to empower all Algolians to fulfill our mission to power search and discovery with ease. We place an emphasis on an individual’s impact, contribution, and output, over their physical location. Algolia is a high-trust environment and many of our team members have the autonomy to choose where they want to work and when. We have a global presence with offices in Paris, NYC, London, Sydney and Bucharest, however we also offer many of our team members the option to work remotely either as fully remote or hybrid-remote employees. Positions listed as "Remote" are only available for remote work within the specified country. Positions listed within a specific city are only available in that location - depending on the role it may be available with either a hybrid-remote or in-office schedule. WE’RE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WHO CAN LIVE OUR VALUES: 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. We’re looking for talented, passionate people to help build the world’s best search and discovery technology. We value autonomy, diversity, and collaboration. We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is respected and supported—regardless of race, age, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, color, veteran status, disability, or socioeconomic background. IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR CANDIDATES - Recruitment Fraud Notice We’ve recently seen an increase in recruitment scams targeting job seekers. To help protect yourself, please keep the following in mind: Our open positions may appear on third-party job boards, but the best way to apply safely is directly through our careers page. All genuine communication from Algolia will come from an @algolia.com email address. If you receive an email from someone claiming to work at Algolia who does not have an @algolia.com email address, please do not respond or share any personal information. We’ll never ask for payments, purchases, or financial details during the hiring process. READY TO APPLY? If you share our values and our enthusiasm for building the world’s best search & discovery technology, we’d love to review your application!