Staff Engineer, Software
AlphaSense10 hours ago
Remote, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction, define architecture, make build-versus-buy decisions, and own the technical roadmap.
- Design, deliver, and operate scalable backend services, high-throughput data pipelines, and production-grade systems.
- Lead cross-team technical initiatives, migrations, platform changes, RFCs, and architectural reviews without formal authority.
- Evaluate and integrate AI/ML capabilities such as LLMs, embeddings, and classification models when appropriate.
- Own systems from requirements through production, including monitoring SLOs/SLIs, troubleshooting, and reliability improvements.
- Mentor engineers and raise engineering standards through code reviews, pairing, documentation, and technical leadership.
Requirements
- Strong Python skills and production experience in at least two programming languages.
- Experience designing and owning production systems serving real users at scale and making consequential architectural decisions.
- Experience leading cross-team technical initiatives and aligning multiple teams without formal authority.
- Strong system design skills covering failure modes, data flow, scalability, and operational cost.
- Deep experience with Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and observability.
- Track record of mentoring engineers and raising team standards.
- Preferred experience with large-scale migrations or platform rewrites, AI/ML in production, content processing or search systems, Java, GitOps, ArgoCD, infrastructure as code, and AI-assisted development.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
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.