Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform

About the Position

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Connectors Platform Team at Algolia, 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: Allowing 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.

Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements

• Bring proven experience building and operating high-traffic production systems in Go
• 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

We Offer

• Competitive salary range: €67,500 - €94,000 EUR per year
• Flexible workplace strategy: Option to work remotely or in one of our global offices in Paris, NYC, London, Sydney, or Bucharest
• A high-trust environment with emphasis on impact, contribution, and output

About the Company

Algolia is the retrieval intelligence layer that turns intent into trusted, decision-grade outcomes. Powering more than 1.7 trillion queries a year for over 18,000 customers with millisecond latency and 99.999% reliability, we are the recognized leader for Search and Product Discovery by top industry analyst firms. The Algolia platform turns a company's products, content, and business rules into data that humans, applications, and AI agents can act upon. The result is trusted customer experiences with stronger conversions for measurable business impact.

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.

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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!