Senior IT Application Engineer

At Algolia, we’re proud to be a pioneer and market leader in AI Search, empowering 17,000+ businesses to deliver blazing-fast, predictive search and browse experiences at internet scale. Every week, we power over 30 billion search requests — four times more than Microsoft Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Yandex, and DuckDuckGo combined.

In 2021, we raised $150 million in Series D funding, quadrupling our valuation to $2.25 billion. This strong foundation enables us to keep investing in our market-leading platform and serving incredible customers like Under Armour, PetSmart, Stripe, Gymshark, and Walgreens.

Algolia is an aggressively positioned, post-series D SaaS company focused on AI driven Search as a Service.  We are looking for a Senior IT Application engineer for a remote position in the United States. This is a succession position that will be split 70/30 in application management and project management.  This position may have up to 10% travel.

The Algolia IT team cares about the needs of our organization and the satisfaction of our end users.  We are candid in communicating what needs to be done and we have the grit to see myriad tasks and projects completed during daily and quarterly timeframes.  We trust each other, demonstrate respect for each other and are willing to ask for and provide help to each other.

Cultural fit:

• You want to work in an international environment.
• You value the strength diversity provides.
• You love being part of a team that exists in the operations nexus.
• You are excited to support a primarily remote organization.

Critical traits:

• You learn fast and retain well.
• You prioritize tasks effectively and self-initiate completion.
• You build relationships with non-IT stakeholders efficiently.
• You are adaptable in a fast-changing environment.
• You can demonstrate excellent communication skills.

Application Responsibilities:

• Manage software and service relationships and associated contracts with major vendors.
• Study and master the Algolia user tech stack, inside and outside of IT, including both fine-level details and overarching strategic goals.
• Administrate the IS and IAM tech stack with specialization in Okta, Gsuite, Atlassian, Obsidian and Slack.
• Coordinate across Algolia teams to design and manage effective and efficient internal SaaS deployments.
• Ally with Information Security and Infrastructure teams to maintain the safety of our people and products.
• Create documentation to enable end users to interact with our hardware and software systems.
• Engage in the development of less experienced engineers.

Requirements

• 7+ years of technical support experience.
• 7+ years managing IT environments.
• A Masters in Computer Science or its equivalent.
• Expertise with macOS and Windows as well as familiarity with Linux.
• Experience at our current stage and beyond ($50-200M ARR range, high growth, lots of change and building internal infrastructure)

FLEXIBLE WORKPLACE STRATEGY:

Algolia’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. 

We 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.

WE’RE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WHO CAN LIVE OUR VALUES:

• GRIT - Problem-solving and perseverance capability in an ever-changing and growing environment.
• TRUST - Willingness to trust our co-workers and to take ownership.
• CANDOR - Ability to receive and give constructive feedback.
• CARE - Genuine care about other team members, our clients and the decisions we make in the company.
• HUMILITY - Aptitude for learning from others, putting ego aside.

We’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.

IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR CANDIDATES - Recruitment Fraud Notice

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• Our open positions may appear on third-party job boards, but the best way to apply safely is directly through our careers page.
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READY TO APPLY?

If you share our values and our enthusiasm for building the world’s best search & discovery technology, we’d love to review your application!