[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer @Algolia

Role Description

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Connectors Platform Team, you’ll play a key role in building products that help our customers ingest, transform, and enrich their data with AI, making it simple to integrate into Algolia.

The Connectors Platform Team builds and scales the services that bring our customers’ data into Algolia, reliably, securely, and at scale. Our work touches:

• E-commerce: powering real-time integrations with Shopify, Commercetools, BigCommerce
• Data Connectivity: connecting to sources like JSON, BigQuery, Supabase, MySQL, and beyond
• Data Transformations: allowing customers to transform their data as it flows into Algolia
• AI Enrichment Pipelines: enhancing data to improve search relevance

We run on Go, Kubernetes, and Google Cloud, with an engineering culture built around reliability, performance, and simplicity.

What You'll Do:

• Design, build, and scale distributed data ingestion services serving thousands of global businesses
• Drive improvements to system reliability, scalability and throughput
• Champion engineering excellence in testing, observability, and performance
• Mentor teammates and help evolve the engineering culture as we grow

Qualifications

• Proven experience building and operating high-traffic production systems in Go
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, and Google Cloud
• Love the challenge of designing resilient systems that handle high-traffic workloads
• Care about writing high-quality, tested, maintainable code
• Communicate clearly and collaboratively in English

Requirements

• Experience with Go, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Google Cloud
• Ability to design resilient systems for high-traffic workloads
• Strong communication skills in English

Benefits

• Flexible workplace strategy allowing remote or hybrid work options
• Global presence with offices in Paris, NYC, London, Sydney, and Bucharest
• Emphasis on individual impact, contribution, and output

Company Description

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.

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.