Manager, Site Reliability Engineering

at Algolia

Paris, France

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 set to enable every company to create world-class Search and Discovery experiences with an API-first approach. Performance and Scalability is at the heart of our mission: we power 1.5 trillion searches a year, for 10K+ customers all over the world.

As a Site Reliability Engineering Manager in the Production Engineering team of Algolia, you will lead the Fleet team of Site Reliability Engineers responsible for the provisioning and the global reliability of the Search Products at scale.

Your team will focus on creating pragmatic solutions to optimize the Search Products availability and costs at scale, depending on the needs of the customer, the Product teams, and the different engineering teams that deliver a unique Search Experience to our customers.

You will manage a team of experienced Individual Contributors who are responsible for:

Operating and scaling the entire Search fleet, ensuring global performance and reliability.
Reducing and maintaining the level of incidents through actionable KPIs and well-defined SLOs, while coaching and delegating Tier 3 support responsibilities.
Running and continuously improving our in-house Edge Load Balancer.
Building, operating, and enhancing a robust backup and restore system to ensure compliance with our SLAs.
FinOps responsibilities, including monitoring infrastructure costs at scale and identifying optimization opportunities.

YOUR ROLE WILL CONSIST OF:

Collaborating with senior leadership to define the overall technical direction and strategy for the organization, and ensure that the SRE team's goals and initiatives are aligned with this strategy.
As well as building and maintaining strong relationships with stakeholders across the organization, as you represent the SRE organization in cross-functional meetings.
You will also stay close to product and design teams to ensure that the user experience is always top of mind.
You are expected to provide leadership, guidance and mentorship to your team members, helping them to develop their technical skills and knowledge of best practices in site reliability engineering. You will continuously evaluate and improve the performance of the SRE team, and you will identify and implement initiatives to drive operational excellence and improve overall service reliability.
Establishing and enforcing engineering processes and best practices that ensure high-quality, reliable, and scalable systems, as well as working with other teams to promote the adoption of these processes and practices across the organization.
You will be responsible for defining and maintaining service level agreements (SLAs) and key performance indicators (KPIs) for your team's services, and you will work with other teams to ensure that these SLAs and KPIs are being met. As well as leading cross-functional efforts to resolve complex technical issues and mitigate operational risks across multiple teams and domains.
Along with your team you will help design and implement monitoring, alerting, and metrics systems to ensure the availability, performance, and reliability of your team's services, and you continuously refine and improve these systems.
Collaborating with other technical teams to identify opportunities to automate processes, as well as designing and implementing automated tools and systems to support these processes.
As manager, you will also manage the budget for your team, ensuring that resources are being used efficiently.
Finally, you will be responsible for documenting your team's projects and processes, and ensuring that this documentation is up-to-date and accessible to all stakeholders.

YOU MIGHT BE A FIT IF YOU HAVE:

4+ years of engineering management experience
You are fluent in Agile methodology and can lead a project from the idea to Production
You are an excellent communicator, collaborating with Product managers, Technical Program Managers, and Individual Contributors to your team
You are comfortable managing a large team regrouping all seniority levels, and accompanying Individual Contributors in their growth and development
You know how to deploy an application from laptop to production, are able to fully automate it, and you are comfortable with Production requirements (Observability, Alerting, ...)
You are knowledgeable in DevOps principles and CI/CD pipelines
You are knowledgeable in Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code such as Chef and Terraform
You are knowledgeable in at least one programming language (Python, Golang, Ruby.) and are familiar with software craftsmanship
Full professional English proficiency
Ability to make decisions and take ownership for them

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.

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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!