Staff Software Engineer, Core Cloud Platform
AlphaSenseabout 19 hours ago
Base Salary
$223k - $305k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own, operate, and evolve the Cloud and Kubernetes based Platform.
- Continuously improve the security, reliability, cost efficiency, and performance of the infrastructure.
- Champion standards and drive initiatives to promote uniformity and eliminate duplication.
- Collaborate with Product teams to empower them to build and own their services.
- Work closely with other Platform teams to create a coherent and quality Platform.
- Enable self-service and agentic workflow patterns that support a Build it - Own it model.
- Build tooling and AI-powered integrations to reduce cognitive load in infrastructure operations.
- Provide support for the systems built to a globally distributed Engineering organization.
- Execute, automate, and support operational tasks on complex and mission-critical systems.
- Architect, design, and implement simple and maintainable solutions.
Requirements
- Extremely experienced in Kubernetes and its various components, containerization, and AWS cloud.
- Proven track record of running Kubernetes and Cloud-based production SaaS systems at scale.
- Deep understanding of networking and production-level usage of service meshes and gateways.
- Strong operational and troubleshooting skills with Kubernetes, Databases, Messaging Systems, and Storage layers.
- Proficiency in Python and Golang, preferably demonstrated through building infrastructure tooling.
- Evangelist of highly performant CI/CD practices that support agentic workflows.
- Ability and desire to design, lead, influence, and deliver on ambitious technical roadmaps.
- Nice to have: Management of large fleets of Kubernetes clusters with lifecycle management tools.
- Nice to have: Production usage of Hashicorp vault or similar secret management systems.
- Nice to have: Knowledge of GCP and Azure.