Staff Software Engineer
AlphaSenseBase Salary
$202k - $278k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture and evolution of a major area of the entity data platform.
- Design reliable, fresh, and accurate systems that process large volumes of heterogeneous vendor data.
- Reduce manual validation through AI-assisted resolution, confidence scoring, provenance, and deterministic matching rules.
- Establish contracts for correctness and traceability, including source provenance and entity matching rationale.
- Balance AI-driven and rules-based approaches to improve reliability and explainability.
- Deliver integrations across ingestion, matching, entity generation, and downstream delivery.
- Respond to production incidents and improve observability and reliability through iterative hardening.
- Set engineering standards, mentor engineers, and partner with product teams and downstream consumers on quality metrics.
Requirements
- 8+ years building and operating large-scale production systems.
- Proven experience with data ingestion, entity resolution, matching, or normalization at scale.
- Deep expertise in one or more of distributed systems, data pipelines, reference data platforms, platform engineering, or AI-powered classification and validation.
- Strong coding, system design, and architecture pattern skills.
- Ability to design trustworthy systems that combine probabilistic AI and deterministic approaches.
- Experience with incident response, observability, reliability improvements, testing, automation, and tooling.
- Track record of setting standards, driving technical decisions, documenting systems, and mentoring engineers.
- End-to-end ownership experience spanning integrations, entity generation, and operational readiness.
- Experience with company or financial reference data, vendor reconciliation, provenance, lineage, confidence scoring, quarantine or resolution workflows, new data vendor integrations, or cloud-native architectures is preferred.
Benefits
- Equity may be offered.
- Generous benefits program.
- AlphaSense supports an inclusive workplace and provides reasonable accommodation where required by law.
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About AlphaSense
AlphaSense is the technology behind the business world’s most important decisions – from Wall Street to boardrooms across every major industry. Trusted by over 6,500 leading companies – including 88% of the S&P 100, 80% of top global banks, and all 20 of the world’s largest pharmaceutical firms – our AI search and market intelligence platform empowers business leaders to move faster and with greater confidence by delivering the right insights at the right moment. Whether investing, acquiring, advising, or launching, AlphaSense fuels the decisions where clarity creates competitive edge. Headquartered in New York City, AlphaSense employs over 2,500 people across offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, and Singapore. For more information, please visit www.alpha-sense.com.