Site Reliability Engineering Manager, Algolia
Site search and discovery powered by AI
Job no longer available
Site search and discovery powered by AI
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Algolia's mission is to change the way people interact with data.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of engineering management experience
- You are fluent in Agile methodology and can lead a project from the idea to Production
- 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, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes (Administration and Utilisation)
- You are knowledgeable in Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform deployed to multiple cloud environments
- You are knowledgeable of at least one programming language (Python, Golang, Ruby.)
- Full professional English proficiency
- Ability to make decisions and take ownership for them
What the job involves
- 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 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 continuously evaluate and improve the performance of the SRE team, and you 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 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, and design and implement automated tools and systems to support these processes
- As manager, you also manage the budget for your team, ensuring that resources are being used effectively and efficiently
- Finally, you are responsible for documenting your team's projects and processes, and you ensure that this documentation is up-to-date and accessible to all stakeholders
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
While in-site searching has been available for some time from web search servers such as Google and Bing, its functionality is limited due to it relying on general web scraping techniques which can miss relevant information. By contrast Algolia indexes only the company's site, allowing its search to serve accurate results extremely swiftly, which helps to drive sales conversions aside from making sites far more usable. The efficacy of this solution can be seen from its customer base of over 10,000 companies including the likes of Slack, Zendesk and Lacoste.
To diversify and increase the product range, Algolia have expanded into other real-time APIs such as product recommendations available for eCommerce websites. With the company performing extremely well over the last few years, Algolia have recruited key senior executives to futher its growth. As the company continues to scale it seems likely that an IPO is not too distant a prospect.
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
33% female employees
-3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jul 2021
$150m
SERIES D
Oct 2019
$110m
SERIES C
Total funding: $334m
Company benefits
- Health Insurance
- Mental Health Care
- Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Life Insurance
Company values
- Grit - We thrive outside of our comfort zone, pushing ourselves to go ever further. We think long-term and constantly strive to be better, even if things don't always go as expected
- Trust - We trust each other just as we trust our users. We earn that trust by listening to each other, following through with our commitments and keeping our words
- Care - We want the best for our customers, community & colleagues. We go above and beyond to make sure they are happy
- Candor - We are open and honest. We give each other praise and criticism because we want to challenge each other and help one another grow
- Humility - We want our teammates to succeed as much as we do ourselves. We believe each team member is as important as the other and we approach each new challenge knowing that we may not have all the answer
Company HQ
Barron Park, Palo Alto, CA
Founders
Bernadette Nixon
(CEO, not founder)Was previously CEO of Alfresco. Before that, was CRO at SDL and SVP & GM for OpenText
People progressing
Joined as an Account Executive. Promoted to Senior Account Executive after 1 year. They have been promoted to Director of Sales, Northern Europe.
Joined as an Enterprise Account Executive. Promoted to Director of Enterprise Sales after 2 years. Then promoted again to Head of Sales after 1 year. They are currently the Vice President of Sales for EMEA & APAC regions.
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