AlphaSense

Principal Engineer, Developer Experience (DevEx)

New York, New York, United States · Principal

Sponsorship not specified$246k-$339kDetected 6 days ago

KubernetesCI/CDSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringA/B TestingRecruitingResearchLeadershipCommunication

About the role

This is a highly strategic, cross-cutting role focused on ensuring that developer experience evolves consistently and intentionally across the organization.
You will work closely with the Head of Developer Productivity & Experience and other platform teams to define direction, priorities, and long-term strategy, making execution aligned and impactful.
You will also establish a clear system of developer productivity metrics and engineering insights, ensuring decisions are data-informed and that improvements scale with the organization.

Identify and drive improvements across the end-to-end developer journey
Drive consistency and reliability in CI/CD systems, ensuring fast and predictable delivery workflows
Lead the adoption of AI-enabled SDLC practices across teams, enabling safe experimentation
Partner with engineering, SRE, and platform teams to influence direction without direct ownership
With market intelligence and search built on proven AI, AlphaSense delivers insights that matter from content you can trust.

Extensive experience in DevEx, Platform Engineering, and large-scale engineering systems
Proven track record of defining and driving cross-organizational technical strategy
Strong experience with internal developer platforms (IDP) and enabling self-service ecosystems
Experience improving CI/CD systems for reliability, speed, and predictability at scale
Demonstrated ability to align multiple teams and stakeholders without direct authority
Strong systems thinking with the ability to balance local needs vs. global optimization
Recent experience driving or adopting AI-enabled development workflows across the SDLC
Experience with cloud-native architectures and Kubernetes-based platforms
Familiarity with progressive delivery (feature flags, canary releases)

Familiarity with frontend platforms or microfrontend architectures [Nice to Have]
EST or UK timezone for closer overlap with direct team members [Nice to Have]

Experience working across multiple domains (e.g., platform, cloud, CI/CD, developer tooling)
Excellent communication and influencing skills across engineering and leadership levels
Align and connect efforts across Core DX (inner loop) and Cloud/Platform DX (outer loop)

In order to be compliant with local legislation, as well as to provide greater transparency to candidates, we share salary ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location.

Our universe of public and private content includes equity research, company filings, event transcripts, expert calls, news, trade journals, and clients' own research content.
You may also be offered a performance-based bonus, equity, and a generous benefits program.

The Developer Experience team enables engineers to do their best work with high velocity, strong confidence, and a seamless path from local development to production, while ensuring improvements are coordinated across domains rather than optimized in isolation.
Our platform is trusted by over 6,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500.
Founded in 2011, AlphaSense is headquartered in New York City with more than 2,000 employees across the globe and offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, Singapore, Canada, and Ireland.

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