Joblaze summary

In this role, the Senior Site Reliability Engineer will focus on designing and maintaining Algolia's cloud-based architecture for its AI search engine, ensuring the reliability and performance of search and indexing systems. Key skills include experience with distributed systems, Kubernetes, and managing large datasets in high-traffic environments. This position is ideal for someone with a strong engineering background who thrives in a fast-paced, evolving company. The team operates fully remote, fostering a diverse and collaborative work culture.

Joblaze insights

Listed about a month ago — first seen on Joblaze September 10, 2026. Last confirmed on Algolia's careers page November 2, 2026.
Starts above 5% of 155 comparable senior devops/sre roles we track (median $161,300 across 66 companies).

Quick facts

Is the Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Search role remote?: It's hybrid — Algolia expects some on-site time in Paris, France.
What's the salary range?: Algolia lists €70,000–€97,000 for this role.
Where is the role based?: Algolia is hiring for this position in Paris, France.
What's the tech stack?: Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Kubernetes.
What seniority level is this role?: Algolia targets senior candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?: Full-time for this Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Search role at Algolia.

From the original posting

Algolia is the retrieval intelligence layer that turns intent into trusted, decision-grade outcomes. Powering more than 1.7 trillion queries a year for over 18,000 customers with millisecond latency and 99.999% reliability, we are the recognized leader for Search and Product Discovery by top industry analyst firms. The Algolia platform turns a company's products, content, and business rules into data that humans, applications and AI agents can act upon. The result is trusted customer experiences with stronger conversions for measurable business impact.

We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join the Search team. We are responsible for the cloud-based scalable architecture for NeuralSearch, our AI search engine, which incorporates both keyword and vector search. Our work 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.

YOU WILL:

Be a key contributor to the design and development of the Search and Indexing systems
Be responsible for operations for the Search 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

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).
Experience in Kubernetes

NICE TO HAVE:

Experience in Go

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

€70.000—€97.000 EUR

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Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Search

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