Staff Platform Engineer: Cloud DX & CI/CD Leader

Remote; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

AlphaSense is seeking a Staff Engineer for the Cloud DX team, focusing on CI/CD delivery and platform engineering at scale. You’ll design and operate production-grade delivery infrastructure, contribute in Go and Python, and collaborate across timezones with senior engineers and leaders.

You will push AI-assisted workflows into the SDLC, improve canary deployments, and ensure fast, reliable deployments for thousands of engineers worldwide.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in Platform Engineering or Developer Experience with CI/CD focus.
• Experience owning and operating a CI/CD platform at admin/architecture level.
• Proven ability to design and operate delivery systems at scale.
• Hands-on software development in production-grade Go.
• Passion for progressive delivery, canary deployments, automated rollbacks.
• Familiarity with cloud-native architectures and Kubernetes-based platforms.
• Interest in using AI to boost engineering velocity and quality.
• Strong collaboration and influence across teams.
• [Nice to Have] Experience with IDP in production.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve CI/CD architecture and developer-facing experience.
• Improve pipeline reliability, speed, and predictability.
• Define paths allowing product teams to ship fast and safely without deep platform knowledge.
• Own the delivery process end-to-end from code merge to production.
• Champion canary deployments and automated rollbacks.
• Build tooling to make deployments observable, repeatable, and self-service.
• Own and evolve the Internal Developer Portal and self-service experience.
• Partner with Cloud Platform teams on infra while owning developer-facing delivery.
• Embed AI tooling into delivery workflows for productivity gains.

Skills

Platform Engineering

CI/CD

Go

Python

Kubernetes

AI tooling

RBAC & OAuth

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Go

Python

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Job description

AlphaSense is seeking a Staff Engineer for the Cloud DX team, focusing on CI/CD delivery and platform engineering at scale. You’ll design and operate production-grade delivery infrastructure, contribute in Go and Python, and collaborate across timezones with senior engineers and leaders.

You will push AI-assisted workflows into the SDLC, improve canary deployments, and ensure fast, reliable deployments for thousands of engineers worldwide.