AlphaSense
Principal Engineer, Data Platform
$246K–$339K
Remote - United States · Remote · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
About the job
Sets technical direction and builds a data platform that enables teams to operate storage at scale, with a focus on migrations required for a cell-based architecture.
What you'll do
- Design and build tooling for large-scale data migrations across cells, regions, and geographies, including validation and rollback.
- Enable product teams to provision, operate, and scale their own storage; improve data placement, routing, replication, and isolation.
- Own platform reliability and scalability, guide the roadmap, and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- Hands-on experience designing and operating data platforms and storage systems, including production experience at scale.
- Cloud-native storage experience, including managed data services on AWS; strong Kubernetes and containers background.
- Experience designing and running large-scale data migrations, including live migrations.
- Experience with cell-based, multi-tenant, or multi-region architectures, and building platforms or tooling for other engineers.
Nice to have
- Experience running storage systems on Kubernetes or building control planes with Crossplane.
- Experience with private, isolated, on-premises, or air-gapped deployments.
Pay
$246,000 — $339,000 USD base salary
Tools
Kubernetes, MongoDB, ClickHouse, Redis, PostgreSQL, AWS, Crossplane
AI focus
Apply AI tooling to data platform work, such as slow query reviews and incident diagnosis.
Model-written summary · the original posting is authoritative