Joblaze summary

In the role of Senior Software Engineer at Algolia, the individual will focus on designing and developing the Metis system, which supports the company's AI search engine through complex distributed architecture. Key skills include experience with distributed systems, large datasets, and a commitment to high code quality and automated testing. This position is ideal for seasoned engineers familiar with high-growth environments and looking to contribute to innovative search technology. The team is diverse and fully remote, emphasizing collaboration and individual impact.

Joblaze insights

Listed about 6 months ago — first seen on Joblaze April 14, 2026. Last confirmed on Algolia's careers page November 2, 2026.

Quick facts

Is the Senior Software Engineer - Search Infrastructure role remote?: It's hybrid — Algolia expects some on-site time in Paris, France.
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: AI Search, Go, Kubernetes, distributed systems, keyword search, vector search.
What seniority level is this role?: Algolia targets senior candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?: Full-time for this Senior Software Engineer - Search Infrastructure 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.

Algolia was built to help users deliver an intuitive search-as-you-type experience on their websites and mobile apps. We provide a search API used by thousands of customers in more than 100 countries. Billions of search queries are answered every month thanks to the code we push into production every day.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Search team. We are responsible 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 search at Algolia
Be responsible for operations for search 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).

NICE TO HAVE:

Experience in Go
Experience in Kubernetes
Sensitivity to Site Reliability Engineering

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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

€67.500—€94.000 EUR

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Senior Software Engineer - Search Infrastructure

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