AlphaSense

Staff Platform Engineer, Core Cloud Platform

New York, New York, United States · Staff+

Sponsorship not specified$223k-$305kDetected 6 days ago

PythonGoAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsKubernetesCI/CDSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringAccount ManagementRecruitingResearchCommunication

About the role

This is a Staff Engineer role with real breadth.
You will be instrumental in setting the architectural roadmap for our Cloud Platform, ensuring the scalability and performance align with AlphaSense's rapid growth.
We're looking for someone who genuinely embraces AI tooling in their day-to-day work, appreciates the productivity value it brings, and is motivated to make our infrastructure ever-more AI friendly.

Own, operate and evolve our Cloud and Kubernetes based Platform
Champion standards and drive initiatives to promote uniformisation and eliminate duplication
Collaborate with Product teams to enable and empower them to build and own their services
Work closely with other Platform teams (e.g. SRE, DevEx) to create a coherent and quality Platform
Enable truly self-service and agentic workflow patterns that support a Build it
Build tooling and AI powered integrations that reduce the cognitive load of dealing with complex infrastructure operations and systems
Provide support for the systems we build to a globally distributed Engineering organisation
Execute, automate and support operational tasks on complex and mission critical systems
Architect, design and implement simple and maintainable solutions
Enable truly self-service and agentic workflow patterns that support a Build it - Own it model

Proficiency in Python and Golang, preferably demonstrated through building infrastructure tooling, Kubernetes operators or control plane components

[Nice to Have] Management of large fleets of Kubernetes clusters with lifecycle management tools (e.g. CAPI, Rancher)
[Nice to Have] Production usage of Hashicorp vault or similar secret management systems
[Nice to Have] GCP and Azure knowledge

Extremely experienced in Kubernetes and its various components, containerisation and AWS cloud
Proven track record of running Kubernetes and Cloud based production SaaS systems at scale
Strong operational and troubleshooting skill with Kubernetes, Databases, Messaging Systems and Storage layers

$223,100 - $305,000 USD
AlphaSense never asks candidates to pay for job applications, equipment, or training.
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 equity, and a generous benefits program.

The Core Cloud Platform team is responsible for AlphaSense's entire cloud infrastructure, including AWS account management, networking, storage and kubernetes clusters.
We build the underlying Platform that supports hundreds of services and is used by over 400 globally distributed Engineers.
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.

In addition, it is the policy of AlphaSense to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances where a particular employee works.

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