Staff Platform Engineer, Core Cloud Platform

AlphaSense; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 223,000 - 305,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Generous benefits program

Job summary

AlphaSense in the United States (Oregon) is seeking a Staff Engineer to own and evolve the Cloud Platform and Kubernetes-based infrastructure, shaping the architectural roadmap and scaling our SaaS services. You will drive AI-friendly tooling, enhance security, reliability and performance, and collaborate across SRE and DevEx to enable self-service and agentic workflows for a Build it - Own it culture.

This is a broad, technical leadership role ideal for engineers who thrive on scalable

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with Kubernetes and AWS cloud in production SaaS.
• Strong networking, service meshes, and production storage concepts.
• Proficiency in Python and Golang for infrastructure tooling.
• Solid CI/CD practices and scalable platform engineering.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the Cloud and Kubernetes based Platform.
• Improve security, reliability, cost efficiency, and performance.
• Drive standards and reduce duplication across teams.
• Collaborate with Product and Platform teams to enable services.
• Work with SRE and DevEx to ensure a coherent Platform.
• Enable self-service and agentic workflows inBuild it-Own it model.
• Build AI-powered tooling integrations to simplify ops.
• Provide operational support for global engineering teams.
• Architect and implement simple, maintainable solutions.

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS cloud

Networking

Databases

Messaging systems

Storage

Python

Golang

CI/CD

Kubernetes operators

Control plane components

Tools

CAPI

Rancher

HashiCorp Vault

GCP

Azure

Job description

About AlphaSense

AlphaSense is the AI platform redefining market intelligence and workflow orchestration, trusted by thousands of leading organizations to drive faster, more confident decisions in business and finance. The platform combines domain-specific AI with a vast content universe of over 500 million premium business documents — including equity research, earnings calls, expert interviews, filings, news, and internal proprietary content. Purpose-built for speed, accuracy, and enterprise-grade security, AlphaSense helps teams extract critical insights, uncover market‑moving trends, and automate complex workflows with high-quality outputs. With AI solutions like Generative Search, Generative Grid, and Deep Research, AlphaSense delivers the clarity and depth professionals need to navigate complexity and obtain accurate, real‑time information quickly.

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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

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 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.