AlphaSense
Principal Software Engineer – Platform Engineering
$246K–$339K
Remote - United States · Remote · Principal · Full-time · Posted Aug 12, 2026
- Experience
- No specific number of years stated; requires deep hands-on architecture experience in microservice estates of at least hundreds of services.
About the job
Own and implement service architecture changes that enable AlphaSense’s platform to scale across cells, regions, and deployment models.
What you'll do
- Drive service re-architecture and build shared libraries and patterns for cell-based architecture.
- Own fleet-wide environment configuration management and services for private and isolated cloud deployments.
- Implement changes in product services, influence engineering teams, and embed AI tooling into development workflows.
What they ask for
- Deep hands-on architecture experience with microservice estates spanning hundreds of services.
- Strong Java and Python skills, with willingness to contribute to other technology stacks.
- Experience decomposing service estates and designing for horizontal scalability across regions and independent deployments.
- Cloud-native experience with Kubernetes, containers, and AWS; experience externalizing configuration and landing significant changes in code owned by other teams.
Nice to have
- Experience with Vespa.
- Experience with private, isolated, on-premise, or air-gapped deployments; or stewardship of widely used shared libraries or internal frameworks.
Pay
$246,000 — $339,000 USD base salary
Tools
Java, Python, React, Rust, Kubernetes, AWS, Vespa
AI focus
Use AI tooling heavily in day-to-day development, embed it into workflows for lasting productivity gains, and help shape how engineering should use it.
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