Staff AI Platform Engineer

BetterCloud; New York (NY); On-site; USD 178,000 - 267,000; Full time

Job summary

AlphaSense is looking for a passionate software engineer to join their AI & Search mission in New York. In this role, you'll architect and implement scalable services for AI and search products, improving reliability and cost efficiency. You should have solid back-end engineering skills, experience with web frameworks like FastAPI and Django, and familiarity with Kubernetes and cloud platforms. The compensation range is $178,000 – $267,000 USD, plus equity and benefits.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering skills in back-end engineering.
• Deep experience in back-end web frameworks like FastAPI and Django.
• Experience in leading teams/projects in a full-stack environment.
• Excellent communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience designing large-scale software systems with high-quality code.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud platforms.
• Experience deploying AI services to single-tenant cloud environments.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks.
• Experience optimizing performance and cost of cloud services.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement scalable services for AI and Search products.
• Improve reliability and cost-efficiency of cloud services.
• Translate product requirements into software architectures.
• Lead technical practices and best practices in development.

Skills

Back-end engineering

Data-intensive applications

FastAPI

Django

Sanic

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

About the Role

AlphaSense is seeking a passionate software engineer to join our AI & Search mission. This cluster of teams is responsible for developing the next‑generation Generative AI platform powering AlphaSense’s AI & Search product features. As part of this team, you will collaborate with talented engineers to deliver scalable solutions for our world‑class AI‑powered search platform.

What You’ll Do

• Architect, design, and implement highly scalable services for AlphaSense AI and Search products
• Improve the reliability, latency, and cost‑efficiency of AI and search services in cloud environments.
• Deploy AI and Search services to both SaaS and single‑tenant cloud environments.
• Translate product requirements into software architectures in collaboration with Product Management.
• Solve challenges that come along with working with large language models (high latency, variance, etc.), leading to a defensive, fault‑first mindset.
• Provide technical leadership and implement best practices for software development.

Who You Are

• Strong software engineering skills in back‑end engineering on complex, data‑intensive applications with professional, real‑world experience with applications at scale
• Deep, hands‑on experience across a few back‑end web frameworks like FastAPI, Django, Sanic etc
• Experience in leading teams and/or projects in a full‑stack environment
• Excellent communication, organizational, problem‑solving, debugging, and analytical skills.
• Experience designing large‑scale software systems and writing high‑quality code and tests. Which includes handling error cases, asynchronous code, streaming data, caching, logging and analytics for understanding behavior in production.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Experience in deploying AI and search services (e.g. vector search) to single‑tenant cloud environments.
• Knowledge of modern development practices, including CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks.
• Experience in optimizing the performance and cost of cloud services.

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.

Compensation Range: $178,000 – $267,000 USD

Equal Opportunity Employer

AlphaSense is an equal‑opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals. All employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling AlphaSense’s commitment to equal employment opportunity. AlphaSense does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, military or veteran status, disability, or any other non‑merit factor. This policy applies to every aspect of employment at AlphaSense, including recruitment, hiring, training, advancement, and termination.

In addition, it is the policy of AlphaSense to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances where a particular employee works.