Senior Platform Engineer, Dashboard Platform

Algolia • Paris, France • 1m ago

Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs

This Senior Platform Engineer role sits at a common inflection point for SaaS products where the customer-facing dashboard becomes a platform in its own right. The remit spans both core dashboard capabilities and the internal services that make deployments repeatable, which is central to SaaS teams that ship frequently and need consistent user experience at scale. The tooling stack referenced, including Kubernetes, Terraform and AWS, signals a mature cloud-native environment rather than a one-off application backend.

For a long-term SaaS engineering path, the career value is in learning how developer experience is operationalised across many product teams. Work that standardises deployment workflows, testing practices, and platform guidelines tends to translate well across SaaS companies because it touches reliability, release velocity, and internal enablement. The emphasis on orchestrating changes across projects also builds the systems thinking needed for platform leadership in multi-team organisations.

This role is best suited to an engineer who prefers high-leverage work that unblocks others and improves shared infrastructure. It will fit someone comfortable owning ambiguous platform problems end to end, communicating standards, and balancing local team needs with broader product and engineering constraints.

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

In the Dashboard Platform team, we're on a mission to empower all developers at Algolia to ship frontend features to our customer-facing Dashboard, with an emphasis on offering a great and consistent customer experience, at scale. In practice, that means:

working on core features of the Algolia Dashboard
building new services powering our infrastructure platform, to enable quick & autonomous deployment for all teams, using Kubernetes, Terraform and AWS.
building tooling, features & guidelines that contribute to a great Developer Experience
collaborating with all developers to support the adoption & usage of our tools

We have ambitious goals ahead of us and in that context, we are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer, with a heavy focus on infrastructure automation.
We expect you to bring significant experience acquired from a similar role in a former job. Not only will you lead projects in complete autonomy, you will also be accountable for planning ahead, and thinking in terms of what’s best globally for the company rather than locally for your projects. This also means you are expected to ramp up on multiple projects, and orchestrate changes across projects and teams whenever necessary. You will be joining a newly formed team of two senior software engineers, one manager, all of whom are obsessed with helping Algolia build great experience. We're based in Paris but open to remote work!

YOUR ROLE WILL CONSIST OF:

Being a key contributor to operation & deployment of all features of the Dashboard Platform
Taking ownership, research, explore and deliver world-class developer experiences
Sharing your knowledge on software engineering, testing and deployment best practices

YOU MIGHT BE A FIT IF YOU HAVE:

Good knowledge of modern infrastructure management with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform on cloud providers (AWS, GCP, etc).
Familiarity with AI coding agents
Rigor in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices
You care a lot about Developer Experience
Well-spoken and written English skills
Preference for candidates with experience at our current stage and beyond (over 10,000 customers, $50-200M ARR range, high growth, lots of change and building internal infrastructure).

NICE TO HAVE: