Principal Cloud DX Engineer - AI-powered CI/CD

AlphaSense; United States; Remote; USD 246,000 - 339,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonus

Equity

Benefits package

Job summary

AlphaSense is seeking a Principal Engineer for the Cloud DX team to architect and scale the CI/CD and deployment infrastructure across hundreds of production environments globally. You will lead in shaping reference architectures, speeding up delivery, and enabling canary deployments with automated rollbacks across timezones and regions.

You will work with Security, Compliance, and Engineering leadership to drive best practices, while embedding AI-assisted workflows into the SDLC for improved

Qualifications

• Experience in Platform Engineering focused on CI/CD at companies with 250+ engineers.
• Experience owning and operating a CI/CD platform at admin and architecture level, including security, configuration, and enablement.
• Fluent in GitOps and declarative configuration at scale.
• Proven ability to design and operate delivery systems at large scale.
• Hands-on production-quality software development experience.
• Passion for progressive delivery practices: canary deployments & automated rollbacks.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures and Kubernetes-based platforms.
• Passion for using AI to improve engineering velocity, quality, and developer experience.
• Strong collaboration skills and ability to influence across teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the CI/CD and configuration management architecture across our production fleet
• Make spinning up a new production environment a templated operation, not a project
• Define reference architectures with performance profiles tuned per target cluster scale
• Solve version skew and release cadence across environments moving at different speeds
• Set the progressive delivery standard: canary, automated rollback, safe-by-default releases
• Build the paved paths that let product teams ship anywhere without platform knowledge
• Own delivery end-to-end and drive pipeline reliability, speed, and predictability
• Evolve our Internal Developer Portal and the self-service experience around it
• Partner with Cloud Platform, Security, and Compliance on the controls delivery must satisfy
• Set technical direction across the org and mentor Staff and Senior engineers
• Embed AI tooling into delivery workflows for lasting productivity gains

Skills

CI/CD Platform

GitOps

Kubernetes

Cloud-native

AI in engg

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Job description

AlphaSense is seeking a Principal Engineer for the Cloud DX team to architect and scale the CI/CD and deployment infrastructure across hundreds of production environments globally. You will lead in shaping reference architectures, speeding up delivery, and enabling canary deployments with automated rollbacks across timezones and regions.

You will work with Security, Compliance, and Engineering leadership to drive best practices, while embedding AI-assisted workflows into the SDLC for improved