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Staff Platform Engineer, Cloud Developer Experience

AlphaSense · Remote · Engineering

Posted Aug 25, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026

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About your past

Tell me about a time you migrated many teams onto a new deployment tool. How did you get them to move?

What they are checking: Whether they know migrations succeed through making the new path easier, not through mandates alone.

Describe a time you said no to a feature request from a product team using your platform.

What they are checking: Whether they can protect the platform's long-term health while keeping a good relationship with its users.

What would you do

Engineers complain that builds are slow. How do you figure out where the time goes and fix it?

What they are checking: Whether they diagnose with data, like caching and test parallelism, instead of guessing at fixes.

Engineers are spread across the globe. How do you support a delivery platform that never really gets a quiet hour?

What they are checking: Whether they plan for follow-the-sun support, safe change windows and documentation for distributed teams.

About the work

Cloud DX owns everything from code push to production for about 400 engineers. What metrics would tell you that outer loop is healthy?

What they are checking: Whether they measure delivery with signals like lead time and failure rate rather than vanity numbers.

How would you design a CI/CD system that scales to hundreds of services without every team building its own pipeline?

What they are checking: Whether they can create shared, reusable delivery paths that still allow teams reasonable flexibility.

Walk me through how you would roll out progressive delivery, like canary releases, across many services on Kubernetes.

What they are checking: Whether they understand safe release techniques and the automated checks that make them meaningful.

How do you think about GitOps tools like Argo CD compared with push-based deployment?

What they are checking: Whether they understand the tradeoffs in auditability, drift and recovery between deployment models.

How would you build in security checks, like dependency scanning and signed artifacts, without slowing developers down?

What they are checking: Whether they can add supply chain protections to the pipeline in a way engineers accept.

How are you using AI coding tools to change developer workflows, and where would you be cautious?

What they are checking: Whether they have a grounded view of AI in delivery, with realistic gains and real risks.

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The full job description

As published by AlphaSense.

About AlphaSense:&nbsp; The world’s most sophisticated companies rely on AlphaSense to remove uncertainty from decision-making. With market intelligence and search built on proven AI, AlphaSense delivers insights that matter from content you can trust. Our universe of public and private content includes equity research, company filings, event transcripts, expert calls, news, trade journals, and clients’ own research content. The acquisition of Tegus by AlphaSense in 2024 advances our shared mission to empower professionals to make smarter decisions through AI-driven market intelligence. Together, AlphaSense and Tegus will accelerate growth, innovation, and content expansion, with complementary product and content capabilities that enable users to unearth even more comprehensive insights from thousands of content sets. Our platform is trusted by over 6,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500. Founded in 2011, AlphaSense is headquartered in New York City with more than 2,000 employees across the globe and offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, Singapore, Canada, and Ireland. Come join us! About the Team: The Cloud DX team owns the outer loop of software development at AlphaSense, everything from the moment code is pushed to source control to the moment it reaches production, for ~400 engineers distributed across the globe.&nbsp;We've built a solid delivery foundation and we're now raising the bar toward industry-leading CI/CD. Progressive delivery, canary deployments, automated rollbacks, trunk-based development, GitOps workflows: these aren't aspirations but the direction we're actively building, and we're looking for passionate engineers to help shape what best-in-class looks like. About the Role:&nbsp; This is a Staff Engineer role with real breadth. It requires both operational and software development skills, the ability to lead projects and collaborate across timezones with Engineering leaders and very senior Engineers across dozens of teams. You'll design and operate production-grade delivery infrastructure, contribute hands-on in Go and Python, and help shape the engineering practices a global organisation depends on.&nbsp; 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 push that further, both in their own practice and by helping embed AI-assisted workflows into the SDLC for the wider engineering organization. Who You Are: • Strong experience in Platform Engineering or Developer Experience roles focused on CI/CD and delivery, ideally at companies with 200+ engineers • Experience owning and operating a CI/CD platform at admin and architecture level, including security, configuration, and enablement • Proven ability to design and operate delivery systems at scale • Hands-on software development experience including production-quality Go • Passion for progressive delivery practices: canary deployments & automated rollbacks • Familiarity with cloud-native architectures and Kubernetes-based platforms • Passion for using AI to improve engineering velocity, quality, and developer experience • Strong collaboration skills and ability to influence across teams • [Nice to Have] Built and/or maintained an IDP in production&nbsp; • [Nice to Have] Previous experience working in both Software and Platform Engineering teams&nbsp; • [Nice to Have] Interest in Security and an understanding of RBAC and OAuth What You’ll Do: &nbsp; • Own and evolve our CI/CD architecture and the developer-facing experience • Drive continuous improvements to pipeline reliability, speed, and predictability • Define paved paths that let product teams ship fast and safely without deep platform knowledge • Own the delivery process end-to-end, from code merge to production • Champion progressive delivery practices: canary deployments & automated rollbacks • Build tooling that makes deployments observable, repeatable, and self-service • Own and evolve our Internal Developer Portal and the self-service experience around it • Partner with Cloud Platform teams on infrastructure while owning the developer-facing delivery • Embed AI tooling into delivery workflows in ways that create lasting productivity gains For base compensation, we set standard ranges for all roles based on function and level benchmarked against similar stage growth companies and internal comparables. In order to be compliant with local legislation, as well as to provide greater transparency to candidates, we share salary ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience/expertise and may vary from the amounts listed below.&nbsp; You may also be offered equity, and a generous benefits program. Compensation Range $223,100 &mdash; $305,000 USD AlphaSense is an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals. All employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling AlphaSense’s commitment to equal employment opportunity. AlphaSense does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, military or veteran status, disability, or any other non-merit factor. This policy applies to every aspect of employment at AlphaSense, including recruitment, hiring, training, advancement, and termination. In addition, it is the policy of AlphaSense to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances where a particular employee works. Recruiting Scams and Fraud We at AlphaSense have been made aware of fraudulent job postings and individuals impersonating AlphaSense recruiters. These scams may involve fake job offers, requests for sensitive personal information, or demands for payment. Please note: • AlphaSense never asks candidates to pay for job applications, equipment, or training. • All official communications will come from an @<a href="http://alpha-sense.com/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://alpha-sense.com/&source=gmail&ust=1740162734907000&usg=AOvVaw2sfhQUZloRzVpQ4Yj1Ftlo">alpha-sense.com &nbsp;email address. • If you’re unsure about a job posting or recruiter, verify it on our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.alpha-sense.com/careers/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.alpha-sense.com/careers/&source=gmail&ust=1740162734907000&usg=AOvVaw3I0CFwb1ser7ImCRD48YOl">Careers page . If you believe you’ve been targeted by a scam or have any doubts regarding the authenticity of any job listing purportedly from or on behalf of AlphaSense please contact us. Your security and trust matter to us.

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