Staff Software Engineer
AlphaSenseabout 6 hours ago
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction for your area, making build-vs-buy decisions and defining architecture.
- Take ambiguous problems and make them concrete by scoping work and identifying risks.
- Design and deliver production-grade systems that are scalable and robust.
- Leverage AI tools as part of your workflow to accelerate development.
- Evaluate and integrate AI/ML capabilities into production systems.
- Drive cross-team technical initiatives and build consensus on technical decisions.
- Own what you build, from requirements to release and production.
- Raise the engineering bar through mentorship and technical documentation.
Requirements
- Strong in Python and comfortable working across multiple programming languages.
- Designed and owned production systems serving real users at scale.
- Led cross-team technical initiatives without formal authority.
- Strong system design instincts with a focus on scalability and operational cost.
- Deep DevOps and operational experience with Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure.
- Track record of mentoring engineers and raising team standards.