Senior Software Engineer, Data Connectors

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.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Connectors Platform Team, you’ll play a key role in building products that help our customers ingest, transform, and enrich their data with AI, making it simple to integrate into Algolia.

The Team & Platform

The Connectors Platform Team builds and scales the services that bring our customers’ data into Algolia, reliably, securely, and at scale. Our work touches:

• E-commerce: powering real-time integrations with Shopify, Commercetools, BigCommerce
• Data Connectivity: connecting to sources like JSON, BigQuery, Supabase, MySQL, and beyond
• Data Transformations:  allow customers to transform their data as it flows into Algolia
• AI Enrichment Pipelines: enhancing data to improve search relevance

We run on Go, Kubernetes, and Google Cloud, with an engineering culture built around reliability, performance, and simplicity.

• Design, build, and scale distributed data ingestion services serving thousands of global businesses
• Drive improvements to system reliability, scalability and throughput
• Champion engineering excellence in testing, observability, and performance
• Mentor teammates and help evolve the engineering culture as we grow

• Bring proven experience building and operating high-traffic production systems.
• Have strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, and Google Cloud
• Love the challenge of designing resilient systems that handle high-traffic workloads
• Care about writing high-quality, tested, maintainable code
• Communicate clearly and collaboratively in English

#LI-Remote #LI-Hybrid

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

We’ve recently seen an increase in recruitment scams targeting job seekers. To help protect yourself, please keep the following in mind:

• Our open positions may appear on third-party job boards, but the best way to apply safely is directly through our careers page.
• All genuine communication from Algolia will come from an @algolia.com email address. If you receive an email from someone claiming to work at Algolia who does not have an @algolia.com email address, please do not respond or share any personal information.
• We’ll never ask for payments, purchases, or financial details during the hiring process.

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!