Senior Software Engineer, Dashboard Platform

Algolia • London, England • 1w ago

Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs

This role stands out in SaaS because it sits at the intersection of customer-facing product surfaces and the internal platform capabilities that make frequent, reliable delivery possible. A Dashboard Platform function typically becomes critical as a SaaS product matures, when many teams need to ship consistent UI experiences while depending on shared deployment and infrastructure patterns. The emphasis on Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS signals a platform engineering remit focused on standardisation and repeatability.

For a long-term SaaS career, the work maps closely to the problems that recur across subscription software businesses: enabling autonomous teams, reducing friction in release processes, and building tooling that improves developer experience at scale. Ownership of deployment and operational pathways creates durable expertise in how product changes reach customers safely, and how internal platforms evolve to support multiple roadmaps without becoming a bottleneck.

The position is best suited to a senior engineer who prefers broad, cross-team impact over narrow feature delivery, and who is comfortable orchestrating change across multiple initiatives. It will fit someone who enjoys infrastructure automation, pragmatic governance, and setting engineering practices that other teams adopt, while still staying close to the realities of a customer-facing dashboard.

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: