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How Algolia hires

Truth index
B 75/100
Median time to fill
44 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%

Algolia scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 10 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 44 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Visa sponsorship

  • United States · H-1B filings in 12 months: 1 · green card filings: 1
  • United Kingdom · Licensed UK visa sponsor (Senior or Specialist Worker, Skilled Worker)

Visa details by country

Overview

Algolia is a software-as-a-service company headquartered in San Francisco, California, and was founded in 2012. The company provides a search and discovery platform that offers an application programming interface for integrating search, recommendations, and generative AI capabilities into websites and mobile applications. It operates on a global scale with over 70 data centers across 17 regions, serving more than 18,000 customers in industries such as e-commerce, media, and software.

News

News Lovable Documentation 4 months ago
Connect your app to Algolia
Connect your app to Algolia, a hosted search and indexing engine, to add full-text search, faceted filtering, and indexing to your Lovable app.
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News algolia 6 months ago
Algolia Answers
Learn how you can find semantic results for a user
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News algolia.com 6 months ago
Agentic Search Leaderboard Algolia
20 LLMs tested on 1,500 real shopping queries through Algolia Agent Studio. Quality, accuracy, speed, and cost compared. Open methodology.
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News benzimmermann.dev 7 months ago
I Found 39 Algolia Admin Keys Exposed Across Open Source Documentation Sites
A systematic audit of Algolia DocSearch found 39 admin API keys exposed across projects like Home Assistant, KEDA, and vcluster.
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News Partiful 1 year ago
An Evening With Nicolas Dessaigne: From $2B Founder to YC General Partner - #SFTechWeek
Nicolas Dessaigne co-founded Algolia, joined Y Combinator's Winter 2014 batch and served as CEO as the company grew from a small team to 350 employees. Tod…
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News Algolia 1 year ago
How unintended double encryption crippled our search engine performance
In this blog, we are taking a deep dive into a technical issue with our search infrastructure, and how it was resolved with a little help from our friends at Microsoft.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Algolia over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
67
Postings analysed
60
Stack modernity
84/100AI adopter
Languages
Python25%
JavaScript23%
Ruby17%
TypeScript17%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js17%
PoC Library3%
Django2%
Databases
BigQuery2%
Google BigQuery2%
MySQL2%
Cloud & platforms
AWS22%
GCP22%
Azure15%
Kubernetes13%
AI & ML
LLM7%
ChatGPT7%
Claude7%
Gemini7%
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Full Algolia tech stack 67 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$163k
Typical range
$75k – $227k
Open positions
28
22 Jobs
Junior 13.6%
Middle 13.6%
Senior 63.6%
Principal 4.5%
Architect 4.5%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 3 $179k $179k – $183k
Middle 3 $190k $190k – $211k
Senior 14 $163k $105k – $227k
Principal 1 $151k $151k
Architect 1 $168k $168k
Highest paying role Enterprise Account Executive - Dutch Speaking $227k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Algolia By role, level and city, against the market · 28 jobs with pay

People

Nicolas Dessaigne
Director
Julien Lemoine
Executive Officer, Director
Carlton Baab
Executive Officer
Bernadette Nixon
Executive Officer, Director
Adanech Getachew
Executive Officer
Kendall Colliins
Director
Philippe Botteri
Director
Nate Niparko
Director
Mark Burton
Director
Names and roles come from public filings, company registers and the company's own site. Is this you? Correct or remove · How we handle this data

Growth

Hiring Momentum
83/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
37
14 opened / 12 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
44 days
faster than 30% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Sales
38% ▼
DevOps
13% ▲
Marketing
13% ▲
Backend
8%
Leadership
5% ▲
HR
5% ▼
Actively hiring for Sales (+5 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: Netherlands Oct 2026
New location: Australia Oct 2026
New location: Germany Oct 2026
New location: United States Oct 2026
Added Edge AI to stack Oct 2026
Added Supabase to stack Oct 2026
Added MySQL to stack Oct 2026
Added Google BigQuery to stack Oct 2026
Added BigQuery to stack Oct 2026
Added Smartsheet to stack Oct 2026
Added Scrum to stack Oct 2026
Added Jira to stack Oct 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
14
Hiring now
4
Countries
7
Busiest office
Paris
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San Francisco United States
HQ
San Francisco
careers board
Paris France
Remote hub
Remote - Netherlands
19 open roles 14 posted in 90 days 58% engineering 100% remote 200-500 est. staff $133k Avg Salary
hires for DevOps, Sales, Backend
seen since Apr 2024 careers board, job postings
London United Kingdom
Remote hub
Remote - Netherlands
7 open roles 8 posted in 90 days 100% remote 200-500 est. staff $171k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, Solutions, Marketing
seen since Apr 2026 careers board, job postings
Sydney Australia
Regional office
Remote - Australia
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 100% remote 10-50 est. staff
hires for Sales, Solutions
seen since Aug 2026 careers board, job postings
New York United States
Sales office
Remote - USA
1 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 100% remote 50-200 est. staff $95k Avg Salary
hires for Sales
seen since May 2026 careers board, job postings
Tokyo Japan
Regional office
Remote - Japan
careers board
Chicago United States
Regional office
Chicago
careers board
Singapore Singapore
Regional office
Remote - Singapore
careers board
Bucharest Romania
Regional office
Bucharest
careers board
Seattle United States
Regional office
Seattle
careers board
Raleigh United States
Regional office
Raleigh
careers board
Boston United States
Regional office
Boston
careers board
Austin United States
Regional office
Austin
careers board
Palo Alto United States
Regional office
3790 El Camino Real, Unit #518, Palo Alto, California, 94306, USA
company site

Jobs

$76k – $106k per year • Remote (France) • Paris
Python
SQL
AI Agents
Machine Learning
Mobile
Algolia
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
Kubernetes
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$121k – $152k per year • Remote (France) • 10+ years exp • Paris
JavaScript
TypeScript
AI Agents
Agentic Workflows
Frontend
React.js
Mobile
Algolia
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≈ $140k – $322k per year (Estimated) • Remote (Australia) • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Sydney
AI Agents
Mobile
Algolia
Management
Asana
Smartsheet
Jira
Google Workspace
Agile
Scrum
Apply
$76k – $106k per year • Remote (France) • Paris
MySQL
Supabase
Google BigQuery
BigQuery
AI/ML
AI Agents
Mobile
Algolia
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
Kubernetes
Apply
$78k – $109k per year • Remote (France) • Paris
Python
Go
AI Agents
Agentic Workflows
Mobile
Algolia
DevOps
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Kubernetes
FinOps
Apply
$78k – $109k per year • Remote (France) • Paris
Python
Go
AI Agents
LLM Guardrails
Mobile
Algolia
DevOps
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Kubernetes
Progressive Delivery
FinOps
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$78k – $109k per year • Remote (France) • Paris
Python
Go
Ruby
AI Agents
Mobile
Algolia
DevOps
GCP
GitHub Actions
CircleCI
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Kubernetes
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$64k – $88k per year • Remote (France) • Paris
Python
AI Agents
Mobile
Algolia
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
Helm
GitOps
ArgoCD
AWS
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
FinOps
Linux
Cybersecurity
Kyverno
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$78k – $109k per year • Remote (France) • Paris
Python
AI Agents
Mobile
Algolia
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
Helm
GitOps
ArgoCD
AWS
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
FinOps
Linux
Cybersecurity
Kyverno
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≈ $110k – $254k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States) • 2+ years exp • United States
Python
JavaScript
PHP
TypeScript
Ruby
Objective-C
Magento
AI/ML
AI Agents
Frontend
React.js
Mobile
Algolia
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≈ $85k – $161k per year (Estimated) • Remote (France) • Paris
AI Agents
Mobile
Algolia
DevOps
Kubernetes
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≈ $83k – $163k per year (Estimated) • Remote (France) • Paris
AI Agents
Mobile
Algolia
DevOps
Kubernetes
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Financials

Total raised
$294.1M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
4
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2021 $150M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2021 $324k Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2019 $90.8M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2017 $53M Details