Staff Site Reliability Engineer, AlphaSense
$150-225k
Market intelligence and search platform
Be an early applicant
Market intelligence and search platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$150-225k
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
- 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or a similar role, with at least 3+ of those years operating in a Senior+ SRE position
- Strong background in running production SaaS systems at scale
- Proficiency in at least one programming/scripting language (Python, Go, or similar)
- Hands-on expertise with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and Kubernetes
- Deep understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/S, load balancing)
- Experience with monitoring & alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK)
- Familiarity with advanced observability (OTEL, continuous profiling)
- Proven incident management experience, including leading high-severity incidents and postmortems
- Strong troubleshooting skills across the full stack
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
What the job involves
- Our Site Reliability Engineering team is growing, and we are looking for a highly experienced Staff Site Reliability Engineer to help shape the future of reliability, scalability, and performance at AlphaSense
- This is a hands-on, high-impact role where you will architect core reliability platforms, lead by example in incident response, and drive cultural adoption of SRE best practices across our global engineering organization
- Our mission is to engineer our platform to the reliability standards of mission-critical systems, targeting 99.99% uptime, while continuously enhancing our systems and processes
- This role is key to that mission and goes beyond traditional system maintenance; it’s about pioneering the platforms, practices, and culture that enable engineering to scale effectively
- You will act as a force multiplier, mentoring fellow engineers, influencing architectural decisions, and setting the technical bar for reliability across the company
- Architect Reliability Paved Paths: Build frameworks and self-service tooling that let teams own the reliability of their services in a “You Build It, You Run It” culture
- Lead AI-Driven Reliability: Drive our AIOps strategy — automating diagnostics, remediation, and proactive failure prevention
- Champion Reliability Culture: Embed SRE practices across engineering via design reviews, production readiness, and operational standards
- Incident Leadership: Act as Incident Commander during critical events, modeling operational excellence, and ensuring blameless postmortems lead to lasting improvements
- Advance Observability: Deliver end-to-end monitoring, tracing, and profiling (Prometheus, Grafana, OTEL, Continuous Profiling) to optimize performance proactively
- Mentor & Multiply: Elevate engineers across SRE and product teams through mentorship, technical guidance, and knowledge sharing
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 11 rounds)
Jun 2024
$650m
LATE VC
Sep 2023
$150m
SERIES E
Total funding: $1.3bn
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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