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Join AI Platform: Powering AI in Production
AI Platform builds and operates the shared production foundations supporting Algolia's evolving AI ecosystem.
The 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.
We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer with strong production fundamentals who enjoys solving operational problems, automating repetitive work and progressively taking ownership of complex systems at scale.
YOU WILL:
- Build and operate production infrastructure supporting AI-related workloads and services
- Operate and improve highly available Kubernetes-based platforms
- Improve reliability through SLOs, observability, alerting and capacity management
- Investigate production issues and turn findings into durable fixes and improvements
- Work across networking, databases, compute and service infrastructure
- Improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation and developer experience
- Build and maintain infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code
- Participate in on-call, incident response and operational improvements
- Collaborate with experienced engineers across AI Platform and progressively take ownership of broader production areas
YOU MIGHT BE A FIT IF YOU HAVE:
- Solid hands-on Kubernetes knowledge, including workloads, resource management, and production operations
- Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code, and the lifecycle of cloud infrastructure
- Solid experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment workflows
- Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider: GCP, AWS or Azure
- Good understanding of networking, distributed systems and reliability engineering
- Experience with monitoring, observability and troubleshooting production systems
- Strong automation mindset and the ability to take ownership of well-defined production systems and progressively tackle more complex problems
- Excellent written and spoken English
NICE TO HAVE:
- Go and/or Python engineering experience
- Exposure to AI/ML infrastructure and inferences
- Comfortable working AI-first, using coding agents, agentic workflows and AI-assisted debugging to accelerate engineering and operations
