Principal Software Engineer – Platform Engineering
AlphaSense, Inc.Market Intelligence company
United States$246,000 - $339,000 USDLead
Goldman Sachs
CapitalG
SoftBank Vision Fund 2
Viking Global Investors
BDT & MSD Partners
J.P. Morgan Growth Equity Partners
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Drive architectural direction for a large-scale Kubernetes platform, focusing on horizontal scalability and microservice decomposition.
- •AlphaSense is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to drive architectural direction for their large-scale, Kubernetes-native platform.
- •This role focuses on scaling services horizontally across regions and deployment models, owning configuration management, and designing re-architectures.
- •Key Responsibilities Drive service-side changes for cell architecture, including re-architecture and shared libraries.
- •Decompose hundreds of microservices into sub-systems with independent lifecycles.
- •Find and close horizontal scalability gaps across regions, cells, and deployment models.
- •Own the environments application configuration management framework end-to-end.
- •Design and land changes directly in product services, partnering with owning teams.
- •Requirements Deep hands-on architecture experience in large microservice estates (hundreds of services).
- •Strong in Java and Python; willing to contribute to other tech stacks.
- •Proven experience designing for horizontal scalability across regions and independent deployments.
- •Experience with cell-based, multi-tenant, or multi-region architectures.
- •Strong cloud-native background: Kubernetes, containers, and AWS.
Required skills
KubernetesMicroservicesJavaPythonAWSRustCI/CDDocker
Nice-to-have skills
React
Domain expertise
developer-toolsaiproductivity
Tech stack
KubernetesMicroservicesJavaPythonReactRustAWS
