Staff Software Engineer (Core Cloud Platform)

About this role

• This is a Staff Engineer role with real breadth
• It requires both operational and software development skills, the ability to lead projects and the need to collaborate with Engineering leaders and very senior Engineers across dozens of teams
• You will be instrumental in setting the architectural roadmap for our Cloud Platform, ensuring the scalability and performance align with AlphaSense’s rapid growth
• We’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 make our infrastructure ever-more AI friendly
• Own, operate and evolve our Cloud and Kubernetes based Platform
• Continuously improve the security, reliability, cost efficiency and performance of our infrastructure
• Champion standards and drive initiatives to promote uniformisation and eliminate duplication
• Collaborate with Product teams to enable and empower them to build and own their services
• Work closely with other Platform teams (e.g. SRE, DevEx) to create a coherent and quality Platform
• Enable truly self-service and agentic workflow patterns that support a Build it - Own it model
• Build tooling and AI powered integrations that reduce the cognitive load of dealing with complex infrastructure operations and systems
• Provide support for the systems we build to a globally distributed Engineering organisation
• Execute, automate and support operational tasks on complex and mission critical systems
• Architect, design and implement simple and maintainable solutions

### Benefits

• Work from home opportunities- Deep understanding of networking and Production level usage of service meshes and gateways
• [Nice to Have] Management of large fleets of Kubernetes clusters with lifecycle management tools (e.g. CAPI, Rancher)
• Proven track record of running Kubernetes and Cloud based production SaaS systems at scale
• Extremely experienced in Kubernetes and its various components, containerisation and AWS clo...