Senior Software Engineer (Search)

BetterCloud; New York (NY); On-site; USD 169,000 - 232,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Generous benefits program

Job summary

A leading market intelligence firm is seeking an experienced engineer to enhance its search platform. You will architect and optimize distributed systems handling billions of documents while ensuring reliability for enterprise clients. The ideal candidate has a track record in building robust systems, performance optimization, and familiarity with tools like Kubernetes and Elasticsearch. This role offers competitive compensation ranging from $169,000 to $232,000 along with equity and generous benefits.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in building and operating distributed systems.
• Strong performance optimization skills at all system layers.
• Experience with real-time processing or database internals.

Responsibilities

• Scale distributed systems across billions of documents.
• Drive the evolution from legacy to modern architecture.
• Establish monitoring and deployment practices.

Skills

Distributed systems building

Performance optimization

Data platform experience

Tools

Kubernetes

Elasticsearch

JVM-based systems

Job description

About AlphaSense

The world’s most sophisticated companies rely on AlphaSense to remove uncertainty from decision‑making. With market intelligence and search built on proven AI, AlphaSense delivers insights that matter from content you can trust. Our universe of public and private content includes equity research, company filings, event transcripts, expert calls, news, trade journals, and clients’ own research content.

The acquisition of Tegus by AlphaSense in 2024 advances our shared mission to empower professionals to make smarter decisions through AI‑driven market intelligence. Together, AlphaSense and Tegus will accelerate growth, innovation, and content expansion, with complementary product and content capabilities that enable users to unearth even more comprehensive insights from thousands of content sets. Our platform is trusted by over 6,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500. Founded in 2011, AlphaSense is headquartered in New York City with more than 2,000 employees across the globe and offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, Singapore, Canada, and Ireland. Come join us!

About the Team

As part of our Search team, you'll own a critical platform that directly impacts how customers discover insights. This isn't just about maintaining a search system – it's about building the next generation of information retrieval at scale. You'll work with modern technologies (including hybrid lexical/vector search), but more importantly, you'll apply your distributed systems expertise to solve fascinating scale challenges.

The best part? You'll join a team of smart engineers who are eager to learn. Your experience in building bulletproof systems will directly elevate the entire team's capabilities.

About the Role

AlphaSense is seeking an experienced engineer to work on the search platform that powers market intelligence across billions of documents. You'll tackle the challenge of building distributed systems that handle hundreds of queries per second with millisecond latency, while establishing engineering excellence that ensures reliability for our enterprise customers.

This role is perfect for a seasoned engineer who loves challenges and has a track record of building robust, high‑performance systems. While search experience is valuable, we believe great engineers can master new domains – what matters most is your ability to build systems that scale and don't break.

Who You Are

• 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 - you can profile, diagnose, and fix bottlenecks across the stack
• Experience with data pipeline architecture, real‑time processing, or database internals
• Excellence in building observable systems with comprehensive monitoring and alerting

Preferred

• Experience with search platforms (Vespa, Elasticsearch, Solr) or similar large‑scale data systems
• Experience with Kubernetes, CRDs, and infrastructure as code
• Background in information retrieval, ranking systems, or recommendation engines
• Familiarity with hybrid search approaches (lexical and vector)
• Experience with JVM‑based systems and tuning
• Knowledge of modern engineering practices from high‑growth companies

What You’ll Do

• Scale Distributed Systems: Architect and optimize infrastructure handling billions of documents and hundreds of queries per second
• Lead Platform Evolution: Drive the migration from legacy systems to modern architecture, ensuring zero downtime and improved performance
• Build Engineering Excellence: Establish comprehensive monitoring, testing, and deployment practices that catch issues before customers do
• Optimize Performance: Profile and tune systems from the infrastructure to the application level, balancing cost and performance

Compensation

For base compensation, we set standard ranges for all roles based on function and level benchmarked against similar stage growth companies and internal comparables. In order to be compliant with local legislation, as well as to provide greater transparency to candidates, we share salary ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience/expertise and may vary from the amounts listed below.

You may also be offered equity, and a generous benefits program.

$169,000 — $232,000 USD

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