Principal Platform Architect: Scalable Microservices

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

Job summary

AlphaSense is seeking a Senior Staff Software Architect to lead horizontal scalability across hundreds of microservices in a Kubernetes-native, cloud-native platform. You’ll set architectural direction, own environment configuration management, and influence multiple teams as you design scalable, multi-region deployments.

Strong Java and Python skills, and deep experience with Kubernetes and AWS are required.

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on architecture experience in large microservice estates.
• Strong in Java and Python, with willingness to contribute to other stacks.
• Track record decomposing large service estates into evolvable sub-systems.
• Proven experience designing for horizontal scalability across regions and deployments.
• Experience with cell-based, multi-tenant or multi-region architectures.
• Strong cloud-native background: Kubernetes, containers and AWS.
• Experience externalising configuration and removing environment coupling from application code.
• Ability to land significant changes in code owned by other teams.

Responsibilities

• Drive the service-side changes cell architecture needs: re-architecture, shared library, etc.
• Decompose hundreds of microservices into sub-systems with independent lifecycles.
• Find and close horizontal scalability gaps across regions, cells and deployment models.
• Own the environments application configuration management framework end-to-end.
• Own the services and libraries specific to private and isolated cloud deployments.
• Design and land changes directly in product services, partnering with the teams that own them.
• Set the architecture patterns and reference implementations product teams build against.
• Make configuration a runtime concern rather than something baked into service code.
• Partner with Cloud Platform, SRE and DevEx on where the service and platform boundary should sit.
• Raise the architectural bar across the org and mentor Staff and Senior engineers.
• Embed AI tooling into day-to-day development for lasting productivity gains.

Skills

Java

Python

Kubernetes

AWS

Cloud-native

Tools

Docker

Vespa

Job description

AlphaSense is seeking a Senior Staff Software Architect to lead horizontal scalability across hundreds of microservices in a Kubernetes-native, cloud-native platform. You’ll set architectural direction, own environment configuration management, and influence multiple teams as you design scalable, multi-region deployments.

Strong Java and Python skills, and deep experience with Kubernetes and AWS are required.