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About Algolia
Algolia is set to enable every company to create world-class Search and Discovery experiences with an API-first approach(e)Performance and Scalability is at the heart of our mission: we power 1.5 trillion searches a year, for 10K+ customers all over the world(e)We see Developer Experience as a key element of our offering: we maintain high-quality SDKs for dozens of languages and platforms(e)We value Grit, Trust, Candor, Care and Humility(e)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!
As a Staff engineer, we expect you to bring significant experience acquired from a similar role in a former job(e)Not only will you be responsible for designing, developing and maintaining features that strive to improve our products(e)But you will also lead projects in complete autonomy, you will also be accountable for planning ahead, and thinking in terms of what's best globally for the company rather than locally for your projects(e)This also means you are expected to ramp up on multiple projects, and orchestrate changes across projects and teams whenever necessary(e)As a staff engineer, you are also expected to be a technical leader, sharing your knowledge, helping engineers grow and leading improvements of team practices.
As our systems keep improving and scaling, no two problems are ever the same(e)We expect you to be a pragmatic and resilient problem solver who isn’t afraid to think outside of the box(e)You will take ownership of complete projects and execute them.
The team is composed of engineers with different backgrounds and experience both in the industry and academia(e)Your experience, your knowledge and your perspective will add to this diversity, and help the team deliver products that make a difference.
You will strive in the Algolia R&D team if you are product oriented and you have experience architecting and maintaining projects with high load in any IAAS.
The main technologies we use in the team are:
- Languages: Go / Python / C++ / SQL
- Databases & Data Stores: GCS / BigQuery / CloudSQL (PostgreSQL)
- Infrastructure: Kubernetes (GKE) / PubSub / Redis (Memorystore) / Terraform / SRE oriented mindset
We run & maintain what we build and are driven by the impact we have on our customers' business metrics.
YOUR ROLE WILL CONSIST OF:
- Being a key contributor to the design, development, and ultimately operation of features at scale
- Being responsible for the quality and the robustness of the systems
- Sharing your expertise on software engineering, testing and deployment best practices
- Work with other teams to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve high impact issues.
YOU MIGHT BE A FIT IF YOU HAVE:
- Experience in a cross-functional team.
- Have a minimum of 5 years of experience in a similar role.
- Rigor in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices
- Have experience designing, operating and maintaining distributed systems in production
- Have experience working with high traffic APIs and pipelines and experience manipulating big datasets
- Preference for candidates with experience at our current stage and beyond (over 10,000 customers, $50-200M ARR range, high growth, lots of change and building internal infrastructure).
NICE TO HAVE:
- Familiarity with Go and/or Python languages
- Experience with GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes
- Working knowledge of relational databases and query authoring (SQL, BigQuery, PostgreSQL)
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.
REMOTE STRATEGY:
Algolia’s workplace strategy, Hybrid Remote, is designed to harness the power of the opportunities that remote work offers both employees and the company, while also providing an engaging in-office experience for the times when an employee is in an office(e)Our workplace approach reflects the belief that an employee’s impact, contribution, and output are more important than their physical location.
The majority of employees will be able to choose if, and when, they come into an office on a regular basis(e)There will be times when our people are asked to come into an office for “moments that matter:” activities like critical planning meetings and team social gatherings. Beyond those events, 80% of our workforce may choose the location from where they work in the country in which they were hired.
We have physical offices in San Francisco, NYC, Atlanta, Paris, London, Bucharest, and we will be opening a small office in Austin soon(e)https://www.algolia.com/about/
ABOUT US:
Millions of developers around the world use Algolia to unleash the power of search across their digital properties(e)They use Algolia because we are API-first(e)We unlock incredible flexibility(e)We build blazing fast speed into our APIs(e)We do this because we know developers want to build cool things and innovate(e)Under Armour, Lacoste, Birchbox, Stripe, Slack, Medium, Zendesk and 10,000+ other companies use Algolia to build not just great search, but search that converts at higher rates because of the relevancy(e)We help their customers find the right goods, offers, and content really quickly(e)So quickly, in fact, that they don’t go anywhere else(e)Algolia helps businesses build and optimize the search and discovery experience resulting in significantly enhanced online engagement, increased conversion rates and enriched lifetime value that generates profitable growth(e)Today, Algolia powers 1.5 Trillion searches a year – that’s 4 times more than Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Baidu and Yandex combined(e)Our amazing technology is used by one in eight online users.
Founded in 2012, we're backed by $184M in funding from Accel Partners, Alven, DAG Ventures, Founders Circle, Owl Rock Capital, Point Nine Capital, SaaStr Fund, Salesforce Ventures, Storm Ventures and World Innovation Lab(e)The team is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Paris, London, Tokyo, New York, and Atlanta(e)To learn more, visit www.algolia.com(e)
WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR:
We’re looking for talented, passionate people to build the world’s best search & discovery technology(e)As an ownership-driven company, we seek team members who thrive within an environment based on autonomy and diversity(e)We're committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace(e)We care about each other and the world around us, and embrace talented people regardless of their race, age, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, color, veteran status, disability and socioeconomic background.
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!