Remote Principal Platform Architect: Scalable Cloud-Native

AlphaSense, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 246,000 - 339,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonus

Equity

Generous benefits

Job summary

AlphaSense is seeking a Principal Software Engineer – Platform Engineering to lead architectural direction for large microservice estates, focusing on horizontal scalability across regions and cell-based deployments.

You will own environments configuration management and core libraries, influencing multiple teams to adopt consistent patterns, and you will embed AI tooling into day-to-day development.

The role offers remote work in the United States with a competitive base salary and equity.

Qualifications

• Hands-on architecture experience with large microservice estates.
• Strong in Java and Python and willingness to contribute to other stacks.
• Track record decomposing large service estates into sub-systems that can evolve independently.

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

Architecture

Kubernetes

AWS

Microservices

Scalability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Git

Job description

AlphaSense is seeking a Principal Software Engineer – Platform Engineering to lead architectural direction for large microservice estates, focusing on horizontal scalability across regions and cell-based deployments.

You will own environments configuration management and core libraries, influencing multiple teams to adopt consistent patterns, and you will embed AI tooling into day-to-day development.

The role offers remote work in the United States with a competitive base salary and equity.