Posted by employer 1 year ago
First seen on Joblaze 6 months ago
Last verified on the company career page 2 days ago
Skills & Technologies
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, years of experience, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Senior Software Engineer will focus on designing and developing the Metis system, which underpins Algolia's AI search capabilities. Key skills include experience with distributed systems, large datasets, and a commitment to high code quality. This position is ideal for someone with a strong engineering background, particularly in high-growth environments, who can contribute to a diverse, fully remote team. Algolia emphasizes autonomy and collaboration, making it a fitting choice for engineers who thrive in dynamic settings.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about 6 months ago — first seen on Joblaze April 14, 2026. Last confirmed on Algolia's careers page October 27, 2026.
Quick facts
- Is the Senior Software Engineer - Search Platform 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/ML, Go, Kubernetes, distributed systems.
- 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 Platform role at Algolia.
From the original posting
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 and Indexing
- 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.
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