{"id":1026262,"url":"https://alion.io/job/algolia-senior-site-reliability-engineer-ai-platform","title":"Senior Site Reliability Engineer, AI Platform","company":{"id":7158,"name":"Algolia","domain":"algolia.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/algolia","size_band":"501-1000","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":75,"open_postings":6,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":56,"computed_at":"2026-09-24T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"DevOps","role_family":"DevOps","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Paris, France"],"countries":["FR"],"hiring_countries":["FR"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":{"min":69768,"max":96900,"currency":"EUR","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":111367},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"Algolia","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"FinOps","optional":false},{"name":"GCP","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"LLM Guardrails","optional":false},{"name":"Progressive Delivery","optional":false},{"name":"Go","optional":true},{"name":"Python","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-18T11:03:39Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-18","last_verified_at":"2026-09-24T07:37:55Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":5,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":5},"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. The Algolia platform turns a company's products, content, and business rules into data that humans, applications and AI agents can act upon. The result is trusted customer experiences with stronger conversions for measurable business impact.\nAlgolia was built to help users deliver intuitive search experiences across websites and mobile applications. Our Search API serves thousands of customers in more than 100 countries, answering billions of queries every month.\nJoin AI Platform: Powering AI in Production\nAI Platform builds and operates the shared production foundations supporting Algolia's evolving AI ecosystem.\nThe team works at the intersection of Site Reliability Engineering, cloud infrastructure, software engineering and AI, helping engineering teams bring AI-powered capabilities to production reliably, securely and efficiently. Our scope includes Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, networking, databases, observability, reliability, FinOps and production operations.\nWe are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer who can independently own complex production systems, drive technical decisions across teams, and help shape reliable and efficient infrastructure at scale.\nYOU WILL:\nOwn and evolve production infrastructure supporting AI-related workloads and services at scale\nDesign and operate highly available Kubernetes-based platforms\nDrive reliability through SLOs, observability, capacity planning and production guardrails\nLead complex production investigations and turn findings into durable architectural improvements\nImprove shared infrastructure across networking, databases, service communication and compute\nBuild better CI/CD, progressive delivery, automation and developer experience\nDrive cloud infrastructure efficiency and FinOps initiatives\nParticipate in and improve on-call and incident response\nMentor engineers and raise the technical bar for reliability and production engineering\nYOU MIGHT BE A FIT IF YOU HAVE:\nStrong hands-on production experience with at least one major cloud provider: GCP, AWS or Azure\nStrong experience designing and operating Kubernetes and cloud-native production systems at scale\nStrong understanding of distributed systems, networking and reliability engineering\nExperience operating business-critical systems with strong availability, scalability and operational requirements\nAbility to independently own ambiguous, cross-team technical problems and drive them to measurable outcomes\nStrong automation mindset and ability to balance reliability, engineering velocity and cost\nExcellent written and spoken English\nNICE TO HAVE:\nGo and/or Python engineering experience\nExperience with infrastructure supporting AI/ML workloads, model serving, GPUs or other compute-intensive systems\nComfortable working AI-first, using coding agents, agentic development workflows, AI-assisted debugging and automation to accelerate engineering and operations\nAlgolia does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, military status, veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.\nThe 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.\nBase Salary Pay Range\n€69.768—€96.900 EUR\nFLEXIBLE WORKPLACE STRATEGY:\nAlgolia’s flexible workplace model is designed to empower all Algolians to fulfill our mission to power search and discovery with ease. We place an emphasis on an individual’s impact, contribution, and output, over their physical location. Algolia is a high-trust environment and many of our team members have the autonomy to choose where they want to work and when. \nWe have a global presence with offices in Paris, NYC, London, Sydney and Bucharest, however we also offer many of our team members the option to work remotely either as fully remote or hybrid-remote employees.Positions listed as \"Remote\" are only available for remote work within the specified country. Positions listed within a specific city are only available in that location - depending on the role it may be available with either a hybrid-remote or in-office schedule.\nWE’RE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WHO CAN LIVE OUR VALUES:\nGRIT - Problem-solving and perseverance capability in an ever-changing and growing environment.\nTRUST - Willingness to trust our co-workers and to take ownership.\nCANDOR - Ability to receive and give constructive feedback.\nCARE - Genuine care about other team members, our clients and the decisions we make in the company.\nHUMILITY - Aptitude for learning from others, putting ego aside.\nWe’re looking for talented, passionate people to help build the world’s best search and discovery technology. 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.\nIMPORTANT NOTICE FOR CANDIDATES - Recruitment Fraud Notice\nWe’ve recently seen an increase in recruitment scams targeting job seekers. To help protect yourself, please keep the following in mind:\nOur open positions may appear on third-party job boards, but the best way to apply safely is directly through our careers page.\nAll genuine communication from Algolia will come from an @algolia.com email address. If you receive an email from someone claiming to work at Algolia who does not have an @algolia.com email address, please do not respond or share any personal information.\nWe’ll never ask for payments, purchases, or financial details during the hiring process.\nREADY TO APPLY?\nIf you share our values and our enthusiasm for building the world’s best search & discovery technology, we’d love to review your application!","description_format":"text","description_chars":6448,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"All levels","optional":false}]},"benefits":["Flexible schedule"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"France","iso":"FR","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Artificial Intelligence","Search Engines","Recommendation Systems","AI Search"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-18T11:38:31Z"}],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":5,"expected_fill_days":56,"reasons":["conf:1","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-09-24T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":111367,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/algolia-senior-site-reliability-engineer-ai-platform","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/algolia-senior-site-reliability-engineer-ai-platform.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-24T08:18:16Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers"}}