Senior Software Engineer, Connectors Platform
About this role
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.
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Connectors Platform Team, 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: allow 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
- You might be a fit if you
- 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