Principal Software Engineer – Platform Engineering

🕒 August 12

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $246k - $339k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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AlphaSense

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2011

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📣 Marketing

💰 Debt Financing on 2022-06

Consulting • Healthcare • Marketing

AlphaSense is a market intelligence and search platform that empowers companies to unlock critical insights across an extensive universe of public and private content, including company filings, broker research, expert calls, and market trends. Its AI-driven technology affords users the ability to conduct comprehensive due diligence with speed and accuracy, reducing uncertainty and blind spots in decision-making. Trusted by major corporations, financial institutions, and asset management firms globally, AlphaSense serves sectors such as financial services, health care, and technology by providing generative AI-powered solutions that integrate internal proprietary data with external premium content.

📋 Description

• Drive the service-side changes required by cell architecture, including re-architecture and shared libraries • Decompose hundreds of microservices into subsystems with independent lifecycles • Identify and close horizontal scalability gaps across regions, cells, and deployment models • Own the environments application configuration management framework end-to-end • Own services and libraries for private and isolated cloud deployments • Design and implement changes directly in product services while partnering with owning teams • Set architecture patterns and reference implementations for product teams • Make configuration a runtime concern rather than embedding it in service code • Partner with Cloud Platform, SRE, and DevEx on the service/platform boundary • Raise architectural standards and mentor Staff and Senior engineers • Embed AI tooling into day-to-day development for lasting productivity gains

🎯 Requirements

• Deep hands-on architecture experience in large microservice estates, at least in the hundreds • Strong in Java and Python, with willingness to contribute to other technology stacks • Track record decomposing large service estates into independently evolving subsystems • Proven experience designing horizontal scalability across regions and independent deployments • Experience with cell-based, multi-tenant, or multi-region architectures • Strong cloud-native background with Kubernetes, containers, and AWS • Experience externalizing configuration and removing environment coupling from application code • Demonstrated ability to land significant changes in code owned by other teams • Record of identifying architectural limits before they become incidents • Ability and desire to design, lead, influence, and deliver ambitious technical roadmaps • Experience with Vespa (nice to have) • Experience with private, isolated, on-premise, or air-gapped deployments (nice to have) • Design and stewardship of shared libraries or internal frameworks used by many teams (nice to have)

🏖️ Benefits

• Performance-based bonus may be offered • Equity may be offered • Generous benefits program • Reasonable accommodation for qualified employees with protected disabilities where required by applicable laws • AlphaSense never asks candidates to pay for job applications, equipment, or training