Senior Platform Engineer: Scalable, Fault-Tolerant Search (Remote)

NetVerks Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 140.000 - 210.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

AlphaSense is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to work on the search platform powering market intelligence. You will build and scale distributed systems that handle billions of documents and hundreds of queries per second, while ensuring enterprise reliability.

You will drive migrations from legacy systems to modern architectures, establish comprehensive monitoring, testing, and deployment practices, and optimize performance from infrastructure to application layers across hybrid environments.

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years building and operating distributed systems in production.
• Experience with large-scale data platforms or high-throughput systems.
• Expertise in distributed systems fundamentals: sharding, replication, consistency, partition tolerance.
• Strong performance optimization skills – profiling, diagnosing and fixing bottlenecks.
• Experience with data pipeline architecture, real-time processing, or database internals.
• Excellence in building observable systems with monitoring and alerting.

Aufgaben

• Scale distributed systems and optimize infrastructure to handle billions of documents and hundreds of queries per second.
• Lead platform evolution by migrating from legacy to modern architecture with zero downtime.
• Establish robust monitoring, testing, and deployment practices to catch issues early.
• Profile and tune systems across the stack to balance cost and performance.

Kenntnisse

Distributed systems

Large-scale data platforms

Performance optimization

Observability

Data pipelines / real-time processing

System scalability

Tools

Vespa

Elasticsearch

Solr

Kubernetes

CRDs

Infrastructure as code

Jobbeschreibung

AlphaSense is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to work on the search platform powering market intelligence. You will build and scale distributed systems that handle billions of documents and hundreds of queries per second, while ensuring enterprise reliability.

You will drive migrations from legacy systems to modern architectures, establish comprehensive monitoring, testing, and deployment practices, and optimize performance from infrastructure to application layers across hybrid environments.