Staff Platform Engineer, AlphaSense
Core Cloud Platform
$223.1-305k
Market intelligence and search platform
Posted today
Market intelligence and search platform
1001+ employees
Posted today
$223.1-305k
1001+ employees
Company mission
AlphaSense's mission is to organise the world’s business information and leverage technology to enable companies to make smarter, faster, and more confident decisions.
Role
Who you are
- Extremely experienced in Kubernetes and its various components, containerisation 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 skill with Kubernetes, Databases, Messaging Systems and Storage layers
- Proficiency in Python and Golang, preferably demonstrated through building infrastructure tooling, Kubernetes operators or control plane components
- Evangelist of highly performant CI/CD practices that are supportive of 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 (e.g. CAPI, Rancher)
- [Nice to Have] Production usage of Hashicorp vault or similar secret management systems
- [Nice to Have] GCP and Azure knowledge
What the job involves
- The Core Cloud Platform team is responsible for AlphaSense’s entire cloud infrastructure, including AWS account management, networking, storage and kubernetes clusters. We build the underlying Platform that supports hundreds of services and is used by over 400 globally distributed Engineers
- This is a Staff Engineer role with real breadth
- It requires both operational and software development skills, the ability to lead projects and the need to collaborate with Engineering leaders and very senior Engineers across dozens of teams
- You will be instrumental in setting the architectural roadmap for our Cloud Platform, ensuring the scalability and performance align with AlphaSense's rapid growth
- We're looking for someone who genuinely embraces AI tooling in their day-to-day work, appreciates the productivity value it brings, and is motivated to make our infrastructure ever-more AI friendly
- Own, operate and evolve our Cloud and Kubernetes based Platform
- Continuously improve the security, reliability, cost efficiency and performance of our infrastructure
- Champion standards and drive initiatives to promote uniformisation and eliminate duplication
- Collaborate with Product teams to enable and empower them to build and own their services
- Work closely with other Platform teams (e.g. SRE, DevEx) to create a coherent and quality Platform
- Enable truly self-service and agentic workflow patterns that support a Build it - Own it model
- Build tooling and AI powered integrations that reduce the cognitive load of dealing with complex infrastructure operations and systems
- Provide support for the systems we build to a globally distributed Engineering organisation
- Execute, automate and support operational tasks on complex and mission critical systems
- Architect, design and implement simple and maintainable solutions
Our take
Manual research can be a serious pain: financial analysts spend hours every week searching through PDFs one keyword at a time, just to find a single usable insight. To remedy this, AlphaSense has built a smart search engine that slashes research time for analysts, using thousands of sources and a semantic indexing layer that can effectively query finance-specific language.
As a disruptor and market leader in this field, AlphaSense has few direct competitors, being most closely compared to Wolfram Alpha or LexisNexis. It helps that its tools are undoubtedly effective and valued by knowledge professionals: the company counts about 85% of the S&P 100 as customers and is trusted by J.P.Morgan, Microsoft, Credit Suisse and Google, among other major enterprises.
Having raised a large amount of funding over 2022 and 2023, AlphaSense has moved quickly to double down on its expansion in European markets, opening an office in Berlin to support this. With 2024 seeing investment from Singaporean EDBI, it has now set its sights on the Asia-Pacific region. As business intelligence will remain key for enterprises as they compete for market share, AlphaSense is well-placed for additional future growth.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 12 rounds)
Jun 2026
$350m
LATE VC
Jun 2024
$650m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.6bn
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Company HQ
Union Square, New York, NY
Leadership
Jaakko Kokko
(Co-Founder & CEO)Co-founder of Silecs (materials used in the microelectronics industry).
Raj Neervannan
(Co-Founder & CTO)Experienced executive. Previously CTO at Mastek and ChoicePoint, and CEO at Framesoft. Has an MBA from Wharton.
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