Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Algolia • Paris, France • 22h ago

Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs

This Senior Site Reliability Engineer role stands out in SaaS because it sits at the reliability layer of an API-first product that is consumed at very high volume. Supporting search and discovery infrastructure at this scale makes availability, latency, and cost efficiency first-order product concerns, not just operational metrics. The remit spans automation, incident response, and service-level management, which are core disciplines for SaaS companies operating always-on customer-facing platforms.

From a SaaS career perspective, the work builds durable expertise in operating multi-tenant services where customer impact is immediate and measurable. Ownership of SLOs and error budgets develops a product-minded approach to reliability, while reducing toil through tooling and automation aligns with how mature SaaS organizations scale operations without scaling headcount linearly. Exposure to Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD practices also translates well across modern SaaS environments.

The position is best suited to an engineer who prefers systems thinking and pragmatic engineering trade-offs, and who is comfortable collaborating across product and platform teams. It fits someone with prior experience running scalable architectures who wants to deepen operational leadership through measurable reliability outcomes and hands-on platform engineering.

The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.

Job Description

Algolia is set to enable every company to create world-class Search and Discovery experiences with an API-first approach. 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.

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!

The Team

The Fleet team is a Site Reliability Engineering team focusing on one goal: the Search products should always be available. To make this possible, the Fleet team creates pragmatic solutions to optimize the Search products availability and costs at scale, taking into account the needs of customers, the product teams, and the many engineering teams involved in delivering a unique Search Experience to our customers.

The Opportunity

The team is looking for an individual who has a first experience of building and operating scalable architectures. You will contribute to the delivery of solutions that support other engineering teams and will have a direct impact on the success of Algolia's Search products.

In this role, you'll help design and implement systems focused on reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency, while also having opportunities to grow your skills and collaborate with team members.

Your role will include

Operating the Search products, building self-healing and automated incident response mechanisms
Building components that improve reliability and performance
Monitoring and computing the SLO and the error budget of the product you operate
Reducing the toil and the technical debt by automating tasks and increasing the quality of existing components
Managing Incidents and Customer Requests

You might be a good fit if you have

5 years experience in a scalable environment
Knowledge of at least one programming language (Python, Golang, Ruby) and you are familiar with software craftsmanship
Experience working with APIs
A focus on designing reliable, operable, and highly available applications
Familiarity with at least Public Cloud Providers like GCP, AWS, or Microsoft Azure, and their Kubernetes service
A good understanding of Linux system administration, networking, and troubleshooting
Strong communication and organizational skills