Principal Engineer, Data Platform
AlphaSense1 day ago
Base Salary
$246k - $339k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set the architecture and roadmap for the Data Platform and its storage ecosystem.
- Build tooling for moving, splitting, validating, and rolling back large-scale data migrations across cells, regions, and geographies with minimal downtime.
- Enable product teams to provision, operate, and scale their own storage through self-service capabilities and shared libraries.
- Drive data-layer changes for cell-based architecture, including data placement, tenant routing, replication, and isolation.
- Define and apply a managed-first approach to data services, operating self-managed systems only when justified.
- Identify and address scalability gaps across data stores, regions, cells, and deployment models.
- Partner closely with Cloud Platform, SRE, and DevEx teams.
- Raise architectural standards, mentor Staff and Senior engineers, and lead significant technical roadmaps.
- Apply AI tooling to data platform work such as slow-query reviews and incident diagnosis.
Requirements
- Deep hands-on experience designing and operating data platforms and storage systems.
- Production experience with large-scale storage systems such as MongoDB, ClickHouse, Redis, and PostgreSQL.
- Experience with cloud-native data storage and managed data services on AWS.
- Strong experience with Kubernetes and containers.
- Experience designing and running large-scale live data migrations.
- Experience with cell-based, multi-tenant, or multi-region architectures.
- Experience building platforms and tooling used by other engineers and operating under a model where teams own and run their storage.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver significant code changes in systems owned by other teams.
- Experience identifying data scalability and reliability limits before they cause incidents.
- Ability and desire to design, lead, influence, and deliver ambitious technical roadmaps.
- Preferred experience running storage systems on Kubernetes, building control planes with Crossplane, and supporting private, isolated, on-premises, or air-gapped deployments.
Benefits
- Performance-based bonus, equity, and a generous benefits program are available in addition to base compensation.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data EngineeringDevOps
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.