Senior Software Engineer, Usage

Senior Software Engineer, Usage

Algolia was built to help users deliver an intuitive search-as-you-type experience on their websites and mobile apps. We provide a search API used by thousands of customers in more than 100 countries. Billions of search queries are answered every month thanks to the code we push into production every day.

The Team

The Usage team builds the systems that measure and track how our customers use Algolia. Our work powers billing, helps teams understand product adoption, and soon will expand to provide deeper insights that help customers continuously improve the experience for their own users. Correctness is critical, since usage directly drives billing and customer trust. We work with high-scale distributed systems and ensure accuracy across millions of data points every day.

The Role Will Consist Of:

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Usage team, you will play a central role in designing, building, and operating Algolia's usage tracking platform. You will:

• Build and scale distributed systems that handle massive amounts of data with high accuracy and reliability.
• Design APIs and services that surface usage metrics to internal teams and customers.
• Ensure correctness and trust , since usage data is the backbone of customer billing.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and infrastructure teams to deliver features that expand usage data beyond billing into actionable insights.
• Continuously improve system performance and identify opportunities for architectural evolution.
• Mentor teammates , sharing expertise and elevating technical standards across the team.

You Might Be A Fit If You Have:

• Hands-on experience building and operating backend systems at scale.
• Familiarity with Go and a solid understanding of distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of cloud environments, ideally GCP, and experience with messaging systems like Pub/Sub.
• Experience working with large-scale storage and analytics solutions (BigQuery, BigTable, or similar).
• A track record of writing clean, maintainable, and reliable code in production systems.
• Curiosity and drive to learn, adapt, and bring creative solutions to challenging problems.

Nice-to-Haves:

• Prior experience in billing, analytics, or metrics-heavy systems.
• Exposure to building APIs consumed by external customers.
• Background in high-availability or fault-tolerant system design.

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

Team's Current Stack

Go services running on GCP, using Pub/Sub as our message bus, with BigQuery and BigTable for persistence, powering APIs used by both internal teams and customers.

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.

While we have a global presence with physical offices in Paris, NYC, London, Sydney and Bucharest, we also offer many of our team members the option to work remotely either as fully remote or hybrid-remote employees.

ABOUT US:

Algolia prides itself on being a pioneer and market leader offering an AI Search solution that empowers 17,000+ businesses to compose customer experiences at internet scale that predict what their users want with blazing fast search and web browse experience. Algolia powers more than 30 billion search requests a week – four times more than Microsoft Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Yandex and DuckDuckGo combined.

Algolia is part of a cadre of innovative new companies that are driving the next generation of software development, creating APIs that make developers' lives easier; solutions that are better than building from scratch and better than having to tweak monolithic SaaS solutions.

In 2021, the company closed $150 million in series D funding and quadrupled its post-money valuation of $2.25 billion. Being well capitalized enables Algolia to continue to invest in its market leading platform, to better serve its thousands of customers–including Under Armor, Petsmart, Stripe, Gymshark, and Walgreens, to name just a few.

WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR:

We're looking for talented, passionate people to build the world's best search & discovery technology. As an ownership-driven company, we seek team members who thrive within an environment based on autonomy and diversity. We're committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace. We care about each other and the world around us, and embrace talented people regardless of their race, age, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, color, veteran status, disability and socioeconomic background.

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!