Scale - Lead Platform Engineer
Paris
Software Engineering – Scale/Platform /
Full-time /
Hybrid
About the company
Meilisearch is redefining the future of search for developers and end-users alike.
Our open-source, Rust-powered search engine delivers lightning-fast, typo-tolerant, and hyper-relevant results—out-of-the-box, with intuitive APIs and minimal configuration.
From powering the discoverability of 300,000+ AI models at Hugging Face to transforming retail experiences for Louis Vuitton, Meilisearch is trusted by thousands of organizations and developers worldwide.
Since 2018, we’ve grown into a remote-first team across 8+ countries, backed by leading investors including Felicis Ventures, CRV, Seedcamp, and Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch. Our vibrant community drives innovation, with every design spec, SDK, and feature built transparently in collaboration with contributors.
Join us and help shape the next generation of search—where speed, simplicity, and developer experience come first.
About the Scale team
In order to ensure Meilisearch continues to scale efficiently while maintaining top performance and cost stability, we are looking for a Lead Platform Engineer to join our Scale Team.
At Meilisearch, the Scale Team is responsible for tackling the scalability challenges of our product and infrastructure. Our success metrics are uptime, search latency, indexing speed (time to search), and infrastructure cost stability.
You will report directly to the Head of Engineering and collaborate closely with other backend, infrastructure, and engine engineers.
What you’ll be doing
As a Lead Platform Engineer in the Scale Team, your role will include:
Scalability & Performance
- Designing, implementing and maintaining infrastructure and backend scalable solutions to support our growing customer base and evolving support needs
- Continuously improving search latency and indexing speed by working in collaboration with the engine developers
- Optimizing infrastructure costs while maintaining performance
- Building and maintaining monitoring and visibility tools to track key performance indicators
Incident Management & Operations
- Participate in on-call rotation and lead incident response when technical issues arise
- Drive post-incident reviews and implement improvements to prevent future occurrences
Adaptability & Fast Iteration
- Actively contributing to the team’s processes and collaboration to continuously improve our velocity and delivery
- Diving into the Meilisearch engine’s concepts to identify improvements in our global system
- Onboarded by our backend engineers, you will actively iterate on our backend to adapt our infrastructure solutions and automations.
As any Meilisearch member
- Promoting the easy-to-use mindset: contributing to developer experience discussions about the Engine API and Cloud interface
- Sharing your knowledge and bringing visibility around your work for technical and non-technical teams
Our ideal profile
Soft skills
- Excellent collaboration skills with developers across disciplines
- Ability to balance technical depth with strategic thinking
- Comfortable making tough technical decisions and aligning stakeholders
- Adaptable and able to thrive in ambiguous situations
- Flexible mindset, willing to tackle problems outside your initial scope (occasionally in our Rust or front-end stack)
Hard skills
Must-have:
- Significant experience as an infrastructure engineer, SRE, or platform engineer
- Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure (K8s, AWS/GCP, Terraform, etc.)
- Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools
- Familiarity with performance & cost optimization and scalability challenges
- Backend stack knowledge
Nice to have:
- Strongly familiar with AWS
- Experience in Ruby on Rails
- Experience in software benchmarking
- Familiarity with distributed database/system
- Experience with search engines or large-scale data systems
€90,545 - €106,651 a year
Why you'll enjoy working with us
- Hybrid working in Paris 🇫🇷, remote in EU or US East-coast timezone.
- Permanent full-time contract,
- Stock options,
- Protected Fridays & flexible working hours,
- If you’re working from home, we will provide either a stipend for you to equip yourself, or an access to Fleex (Europe),
- Access to a mental health platform (moka.care) + 6 sessions with a coach/trained therapist,
- We support physical health and provide either a membership or a stipend for your sports activities each month,
- 3 months paid parental leave,
- 6 weeks paid time off,
- Management training to freshly hired and newly appointed managers,
- We all get together at least twice a year for a company offsite.
Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend not to apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! We strive to develop an inclusive work environment that reflects the diversity of our open-source community. We strongly encourage you to apply!
