[Remote] Principal Software Engineer – Platform Engineering

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. AlphaSense is hiring a Principal Software Engineer to lead the service architecture and implementation needed to scale its platform across cells, regions, and deployment models. The role owns configuration management and private-cloud services and libraries, while partnering with product and platform teams to establish architecture patterns and deliver changes in code.

Responsibilities

• Drive the service-side changes cell architecture needs: re-architecture, shared library, etc
• 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
• Own the services and libraries specific to private and isolated cloud deployments
• Design and land changes directly in product services, partnering with the teams that own them
• Set the architecture patterns and reference implementations product teams build against
• Make configuration a runtime concern rather than something baked into service code
• Partner with Cloud Platform, SRE and DevEx on where the service and platform boundary should sit
• Raise the architectural bar across the org and mentor Staff and Senior engineers
• Embed AI tooling into day-to-day development for lasting productivity gains

Skills

• Deep hands-on architecture experience in large microservice estates, at least in hundreds
• Strong in Java and Python, and willing to contribute to other tech stacks if needed
• Track record decomposing large service estates into sub-systems that can evolve independently
• 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
• Experience externalising configuration and removing environment coupling from application code
• Demonstrated ability to land significant changes in code owned by other teams
• A record of spotting architectural limits before they turn into incidents
• Ability and desire to design, lead, influence and deliver on ambitious technical roadmaps
• Experience with Vespa
• Experience with private, isolated, on-premise or air-gapped deployments
• Design and stewardship of shared libraries or internal frameworks used by many teams

Benefits

• Performance-based bonus
• Equity
• A generous benefits program

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