Site Reliability Engineer, IaaS

<div class="content-intro"><p>At Algolia, we’re proud to be a pioneer and market leader in AI Search, empowering 18,000+ 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.</p> <p>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.</p></div><h3><strong>The team</strong></h3> <p>The Infrastructure as a Service team is at the center of one of Algolia’s most consequential engineering transformations.</p> <p>For years, Algolia has operated a production fleet of approximately 4,000 bare-metal servers to deliver the reliability, low latency, and scalability that our customers expect. We are now building the foundations of a unified cloud and Kubernetes platform designed to support Algolia’s growth for years to come.</p> <p>. We are now building the foundations of a unified cloud and Kubernetes platform designed to support Algolia’s growth for years to come.</p> <p>This is not a lift-and-shift project. It is an opportunity to rethink how Algolia provisions, secures, operates, observes, upgrades, and scales production infrastructure and to build it as a platform that engineers can safely consume, rather than a queue of manual requests.</p> <h3><strong>The opportunity</strong></h3> <p>As a Site Reliability Engineer in IaaS, you will help build the next generation of Algolia’s production infrastructure.</p> <p>You will contribute to the cloud baseline and reliable lifecycle capabilities that enable teams to operate and migrate workloads safely on a cloud-native platform. You will work across cloud foundations, Kubernetes, automation, reliability, and large-scale production operations.</p> <p>As a P3 engineer, you will be a hands-on contributor. You will build, operate, and improve production infrastructure while developing deep expertise in cloud, Kubernetes, reliability, and automation.</p> <h3><strong>YOU WILL:</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Build and improve Cloud Baseline capabilities, including identity and access, networking, security, resource inventory, tagging, and auditability.</li> <li>Develop and maintain infrastructure as code and automation for cloud environments and Kubernetes infrastructure.</li> <li>Contribute to reliable, repeatable cloud and cluster lifecycle operations.</li> <li>Help build self-service capabilities, reusable modules, and clear documentation that make the safe path the easy path for pl