Senior Data Engineer - AI & Data

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.

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.

The Events team owns Algolia’s customer-facing Events platform, the entry point for sending user interaction data into our system. These events drive improvements in analytics, personalization, and search relevance for thousands of customers. We are continuing to expand and improve this existing system, which means you’ll play a critical role in onboarding to a mature product, helping a newly built team grow in confidence, and shaping the future of this high-volume, real-time data pipeline.

As a Senior Data Engineer , you’ll help scale and evolve the backbone of Algolia’s Events platform. Designing and maintaining reliable pipelines for ingesting and processing both real-time and batch data from diverse external sources (including Segment, Google Analytics, and direct customer integrations).

Owning and optimizing systems that run at massive scale, ensuring low-latency event delivery and high reliability.

Quickly getting up to speed with an established production system, and helping your teammates do the same.

Partnering with backend, frontend, and product teams to align technical decisions with customer-facing needs.

Contributing to architectural improvements that make our event ingestion platform more robust, efficient, and easy to extend.

Sharing knowledge across the team and mentoring new engineers to help them grow.

Solid experience with data pipelines and event-driven architectures at scale.

Proficiency in Go or another backend language, with the ability to quickly adapt to new codebases.

Hands-on experience with BigQuery or similar data warehouses for analytics.

Exposure to frontend systems (React, Rails) and how they interact with backend data pipelines.

Go backend on GCP and Kubernetes , pipelines built with BigQuery and Pub/Sub , integrating with a React + Rails frontend.

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 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 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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