Principal Software Engineer
AlphaSense5 months ago
Remote, CanadaStaff+
Base Salary
$202k - $278k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture and evolution of the large-scale data extraction and normalization platform.
- Design reliable systems processing hundreds of thousands of records across PDF, HTML, API, and XLS sources.
- Reduce human-in-the-loop validation using AI-based validation, confidence scoring, provenance tracking, and deterministic safeguards.
- Define system contracts for correctness, traceability, and confidence.
- Balance AI-driven approaches with procedural and rules-based systems to improve reliability and explainability.
- Identify and remediate architectural and operational bottlenecks affecting scale, accuracy, and developer velocity.
- Act as the technical authority for design reviews, critical system redesigns, and new platforms or tooling.
- Partner with product teams and downstream consumers to define quality bars, SLAs, and success metrics.
- Serve as a technical escalation point for production issues, reliability failures, and systemic risks.
- Mentor senior engineers, shape technical culture, and raise expectations for system design and execution.
- Contribute to long-term technical strategy while remaining hands-on with critical implementations.
Requirements
- 15+ years of experience building and operating large-scale production systems.
- Proven experience designing data ingestion, extraction, or processing systems at scale.
- Deep expertise in distributed systems, data platforms and pipelines, AI/ML-powered extraction or classification systems, or platform and infrastructure engineering.
- Experience designing trustworthy systems that combine probabilistic AI and deterministic approaches.
- Strong understanding of system reliability, observability, failure modes, and iterative hardening.
- Experience reducing operational or human overhead through better system design.
- Track record of technical leadership across teams without formal people management.
- Experience with document understanding, NLP, or financial data extraction is nice to have.
- Experience building provenance, lineage, or confidence-scoring systems is nice to have.
- Familiarity with cloud-native architectures and modern data stacks is nice to have.
- Experience shaping or owning internal platforms used by multiple teams is nice to have.
Benefits
- Equity may be offered.
- Generous benefits program.
- Salary ranges are provided for all job postings regardless of hiring location.
Tech Stack
HTML
Categories
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.