No Whiteboard

EMEA: Engineering Manager - Infrastructure Operations

Algolia (View all Jobs)

Paris, France

Please mention No Whiteboard if you apply!
I'm a one-man team looking to improve tech interviews, and could use any support! 😄

Interview Process

1. Take-home project 2. Onsite discussions and presentation

Programming Languages Mentioned

Ruby, Golang, Python

#HybridRemote #Remote #PermanentPosition
 
You have most likely used Algolia in the last week without even knowing about it. What about joining the team and enabling more developers to build great search experiences with little worry about the reliability of their search engine?
 
Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) at Algolia are both software and systems engineers that ensure we can reliably serve over 4 billion queries every day and over 1 trillion queries a year, for users all around the world, despite data centers being on fire and undersea cables being cut. Since at Algolia we operate many services including our Search API, DocSearch and Analytics, you’ll keep learning new things everyday and share what you have learned.
The platform we develop uses both cloud and bare-metal systems spanning over 80 data centers in 17 different regions serving hundreds of millions of users from every corner of the globe. Because search is a critical component of many applications, the SRE team maintains a high level of expertise in system failures in order to prevent them and provide reliable service to our customers.
 
As a Site Reliability Engineer you’ll actively work with software engineers in application teams to improve the reliability, predictability and performance of our applications and services. While part of the application team you’ll closely work with the SRE community of engineers at Algolia and share the knowledge and needs of your application team.
 
No two problems are the same because all the systems evolve all the time. We expect you to be a curious problem solver who isn’t afraid to think outside of the box and use the knowledge of system interactions in your favor. When you’re ready, you’ll also 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, both senior and junior. The diversity works in our favour and you should increase it by bringing your experience, your knowledge and your point of view. Thinking differently is a plus, not a minus. We’re transparent with each other and to other teams both about our success and our failures. This way we learn, we accept our weaknesses and continuously strive to improve both personally and professionally.
 

YOUR ROLE WILL CONSIST OF:

      • Being a team player
      • Working with other teams to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve high impact issues
      • Evaluating performance of current and future systems, both software and hardware
      • Participating in design of new systems
      • Developing and maintain the automation tools used for all systems
      • Participating in on-call rotation to ensure fast response to production issues
      • Ensuring that the Infrastructure best practices are followed

YOU MIGHT BE A FIT IF YOU HAVE:

      • Collaborative approach to problem solving
      • Willingness to make independent decisions and taking ownership for them
      • 4+ years of software engineering experience
      • Knowledge of Shell scripting and at least one scripting language (Python, Ruby, etc.)
      • Willingness to learn Go (golang)
      • Understanding of Linux systems: I/O, process scheduling, filesystems
      • Understanding of computer networks: TCP/IP, DNS, load-balancing
      • Proficient spoken and written English skills
      • Rigor in high code quality, automated testing and other engineering best practices

NICE TO HAVE:

      • Knowledge of low level principles of computers and network components
      • Performance profiling of applications both in development and production
      • Knowledge of Public Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
      • Knowledge of Go (golang)
      • Knowledge of automated integration tests
      • Knowledge of Chaos engineering
      • Ability to use a configuration management tool like Ansible, Puppet or Chef

#LI-Hybrid #LI-Remote

 

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. 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. 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, Austin, and Bucharest. https://www.algolia.com/about/

ABOUT US:

Algolia prides itself on being a pioneer and market leader offering an AI-powered, API-First Search & Discovery platform that empowers 12,000+ businesses to compose customer experiences at internet scale that predict what their users want with blazing fast search and web browse experience. Algolia powers more than 30 billion search requests a week – four times more than Microsoft Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Yandex and DuckDuckGo combined.

Algolia is part of a cadre of innovative new companies that are driving the next generation of software development, creating APIs that make developers’ lives easier; solutions that are better than building from scratch and better than having to tweak monolithic SaaS solutions.

In 2021, the company closed $150 million in series D funding and quadrupled its post-money valuation of $2.25 billion. Being well capitalized enables Algolia to continue to invest in its market leading platform, to better serve its thousands of customers–including Under Armor, Petsmart, Stripe, Gymshark, and Walgreens, to name just a few. 

The team is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Paris, London, New York, Austin, Atlanta, and Bucharest. To learn more, visit www.algolia.com.

WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR:

We’re looking for talented, passionate people to build the world’s best search & discovery technology. As an ownership-driven company, we seek team members who thrive within an environment based on autonomy and diversity. We're committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace. 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!

Please mention No Whiteboard if you apply!
I'm a one-man team looking to improve tech interviews, and could use any support! 😄

Get weekly alerts of new jobs from companies not using whiteboard interviews!