Staff Platform Engineer, Core Cloud Platform
AlphaSense29 days ago
Base Salary
$223k - $305k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own, operate, and evolve the cloud and Kubernetes-based platform.
- Improve the security, reliability, cost efficiency, and performance of the infrastructure.
- Set platform standards and lead initiatives that promote uniformity and eliminate duplication.
- Collaborate with product teams to help them build and own their services.
- Partner with Platform, SRE, and DevEx teams to create a coherent, high-quality platform.
- Enable self-service and agentic workflow patterns supporting a Build it - Own it model.
- Build tooling and AI-powered integrations that reduce the cognitive load of complex infrastructure operations.
- Support platform systems for a globally distributed engineering organization.
- Automate and support operational tasks on complex, mission-critical systems.
- Architect, design, and implement simple, maintainable solutions.
Requirements
- Extensive experience with Kubernetes, its components, containerization, and AWS cloud.
- Proven experience operating Kubernetes- and cloud-based production SaaS systems at scale.
- Deep understanding of networking and production use of service meshes and gateways.
- Strong operational and troubleshooting skills across Kubernetes, databases, messaging systems, and storage layers.
- Proficiency in Python and Golang, preferably demonstrated through infrastructure tooling, Kubernetes operators, or control-plane components.
- Experience promoting highly performant CI/CD practices that support agentic workflows.
- Ability and desire to design, lead, influence, and deliver ambitious technical roadmaps.
- Experience managing large fleets of Kubernetes clusters with lifecycle management tools such as CAPI or Rancher is a nice-to-have.
- Production experience with HashiCorp Vault or similar secret-management systems is a nice-to-have.
- GCP and Azure knowledge is a nice-to-have.
Benefits
- Equity may be offered.
- Generous benefits program.
Tech Stack
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About AlphaSense
AlphaSense builds an AI-powered market intelligence and search platform used by investment, corporate strategy, and research teams to find insights across public and private content (equity research, filings, transcripts, expert calls, news, and internal documents). It sells enterprise subscriptions to its SaaS platform and content sets. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, the company is privately held and acquired Tegus in 2024; its customers include a majority of the S&P 500.