Staff Platform Engineer, Core Cloud Platform New Remote - United States

AlphaSense, Inc.; Northern (KY); Remote; USD 183,000 - 305,000; Full time

Job summary

AlphaSense, Inc. invites an experienced Staff Platform Engineer to shape our Core Cloud Platform. You will own and evolve our Kubernetes-based platform, collaborating with senior engineers across teams to drive scalable, secure infrastructure and AI-enabled tooling.

This remote role in the United States requires deep Kubernetes expertise, strong cloud experience, and a drive to lead architectural roadmaps that support AlphaSense’s rapid growth and service reliability for thousands of users.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with Kubernetes and containerisation on AWS.
• Proven track record running Kubernetes/Cloud SaaS at scale.
• Strong networking and production use of service meshes and gateways.
• Operational troubleshooting across Kubernetes, databases, messaging systems, and storage.
• Proficient in Python and Go for infra tooling, operators, or control planes.
• Advocate for high-performance CI/CD supporting agentic workflows.
• Ability to design and lead ambitious technical roadmaps.
• Nice to have: manage large fleets with lifecycle tools (CAPI, Rancher).
• Nice to have: Vault or secret management systems.
• Nice to have: GCP and Azure knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Own, operate and evolve our Cloud and Kubernetes based Platform.
• Improve security, reliability, cost efficiency and performance of our infrastructure.
• Champion standards to promote uniformisation and remove duplication.
• Collaborate with Product teams to enable services and empower them to own their services.
• Work with other Platform teams to create a coherent Platform.
• Enable self-service and agentic workflow patterns that support a Build it - Own it model.
• Build tooling and AI powered integrations to reduce cognitive load in operations.
• Provide support for a globally distributed Engineering organisation.
• Architect, design and implement simple and maintainable solutions.

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS

Networking

CI/CD

Python

Golang

Kubernetes operators

HashiCorp Vault

CAPI

Rancher

GCP/Azure knowledge

Tools

HashiCorp Vault

CAPI

Rancher

Job description

Staff Platform Engineer, Core Cloud Platform

Remote - United States

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

The Core Cloud Platform team is responsible for AlphaSense’s entire cloud infrastructure, including AWS account management, networking, storage and kubernetes clusters. We build the underlying Platform that supports hundreds of services and is used by over 400 globally distributed Engineers.

About the Role

This is a Staff Engineer role with real breadth. It requires both operational and software development skills, the ability to lead projects and the need to collaborate with Engineering leaders and very senior Engineers across dozens of teams. You will be instrumental in setting the architectural roadmap for our Cloud Platform, ensuring the scalability and performance align with AlphaSense's rapid growth.We're looking for someone who genuinely embraces AI tooling in their day-to-day work, appreciates the productivity value it brings, and is motivated to make our infrastructure ever-more AI friendly.

Who You Are

• Extremely experienced in Kubernetes and its various components, containerisation and AWS cloud
• Proven track record of running Kubernetes and Cloud based production SaaS systems at scale
• Deep understanding of networking and Production level usage of service meshes and gateways
• Strong operational and troubleshooting skill with Kubernetes, Databases, Messaging Systems and Storage layers
• Proficiency in Python and Golang, preferably demonstrated through building infrastructure tooling, Kubernetes operators or control plane components
• Evangelist of highly performant CI/CD practices that are supportive of agentic workflows
• Ability and desire to design, lead, influence and deliver on ambitious technical roadmaps
• [Nice to Have] Management of large fleets of Kubernetes clusters with lifecycle management tools (e.g. CAPI, Rancher)
• [Nice to Have] Production usage of Hashicorp vault or similar secret management systems
• [Nice to Have] GCP and Azure knowledge

What You’ll Do

• Own, operate and evolve our Cloud and Kubernetes based Platform
• Continuously improve the security, reliability, cost efficiency and performance of our infrastructure
• Champion standards and drive initiatives to promote uniformisation and eliminate duplication
• Collaborate with Product teams to enable and empower them to build and own their services
• Work closely with other Platform teams (e.g. SRE, DevEx) to create a coherent and quality Platform
• Enable truly self-service and agentic workflow patterns that support a Build it - Own it model
• Build tooling and AI powered integrations that reduce the cognitive load of dealing with complex infrastructure operations and systems
• Provide support for the systems we build to a globally distributed Engineering organisation
• Execute, automate and support operational tasks on complex and mission critical systems
• Architect, design and implement simple and maintainable solutions

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

$223,100 - $305,000 USD

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.