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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.\nThe 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!\nAbout the Role: \nThe Cloud DX team owns the outer loop of software development at AlphaSense, everything from the moment code is pushed to source control to the moment it reaches production, for ~400 engineers distributed across the globe.\nWe've built a strong delivery foundation with automated pipelines, GitOps workflows for both code and infrastructure, and a self-service developer platform that hundreds of engineers ship through every hour. Now we're taking it to a new scale. Our next ambitious goals take us from dozens of production systems to hundreds, running hundreds of microservices across hundreds of Kubernetes clusters.\nThis is the role for the person who architects that next generation. We're looking for a Principal Engineer to work with our team to shape and deliver the architecture for how AlphaSense builds, configures, and safely ships software into a growing fleet of independent production environments expanding into new regions and isolated deployments without multiplying operational cost or slowing product teams down. Progressive delivery, canary deployments, automated rollbacks, trunk-based development, and GitOps are the direction we're actively building; at Principal level you'll define what best-in-class looks like here and bring dozens of teams with you.\nThis is a hands-on role with organisation-wide influence. It requires deep operational and software engineering skill, and the ability to set technical direction across timezones with Engineering leaders, Security, and very senior engineers across many teams. You'll shape the engineering practices a global organisation depends on.\nWe'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 push that further both in their own practice and by helping embed AI-assisted workflows into the SDLC for the wider engineering organisation.\nWhat You'll Do:\nOwn the CI/CD and configuration management architecture across our production fleet\nMake spinning up a new production environment a templated operation, not a project\nDefine reference architectures with performance profiles tuned per target cluster scale\nSolve version skew and release cadence across environments moving at different speeds\nSet the progressive delivery standard: canary, automated rollback, safe-by-default releases\nBuild the paved paths that let product teams ship anywhere without platform knowledge\nOwn delivery end-to-end and drive pipeline reliability, speed, and predictability\nEvolve our Internal Developer Portal and the self-service experience around it\nPartner with Cloud Platform, Security, and Compliance on the controls delivery must satisfy\nSet technical direction across the org and mentor Staff and Senior engineers\nEmbed AI tooling into delivery workflows for lasting productivity gains\nWho You Are: \nExperience in Platform Engineering focused on CI/CD at companies with 250+ engineers\nExperience owning and operating a CI/CD platform at admin and architecture level, including security, configuration, and enablement\nFluent in GitOps and declarative configuration at scale\nProven ability to design and operate delivery systems at large scale\nHands-on production-quality software development experience\nPassion for progressive delivery practices: canary deployments & automated rollbacks\nExperience with cloud-native architectures and Kubernetes-based platforms\nPassion for using AI to improve engineering velocity, quality, and developer experience\nStrong collaboration skills and ability to influence across teams\nNice to have: \nStood up a new production regions or isolated deployments end-to-end\nBackground in both product software engineering and platform engineering\nWorking knowledge of RBAC, OAuth, and compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR) \nFor 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.\nYou may also be offered a performance-based bonus, equity, and a generous benefits program.\nBase Compensation Range\n$246,000—$339,000 USD\nAlphaSense 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.\nIn 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.\nRecruiting Scams and Fraud\nWe at AlphaSense have been made aware of fraudulent job postings and individuals impersonating AlphaSense recruiters. These scams may involve fake job offers, requests for sensitive personal information, or demands for payment. Please note:\nAlphaSense never asks candidates to pay for job applications, equipment, or training.\nAll official communications will come from an @alpha-sense.com email address.\nIf you’re unsure about a job posting or recruiter, verify it on our Careers page.\nIf you believe you’ve been targeted by a scam or have any doubts regarding the authenticity of any job listing purportedly from or on behalf of AlphaSense please contact us. 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