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Staff Site Reliability Engineer

AlphaSense · Remote · Engineering

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

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About your past

Walk me through the worst production incident you led. What did you change afterward?

What they are checking: Whether they lead calmly under pressure and turn incidents into lasting fixes rather than one-off patches.

Tell me about a time you got several teams to adopt a reliability practice they were not responsible for.

What they are checking: Whether they have the influence a staff engineer needs to change behavior without direct authority.

What toil have you automated away, and how did you decide it was worth the effort?

What they are checking: Whether they measure toil and invest automation where it pays back instead of automating for its own sake.

What would you do

How do you run an error budget policy when product teams keep wanting to ship?

What they are checking: Whether they can use data to negotiate reliability tradeoffs with product leaders instead of simply blocking releases.

Our alerting pages engineers too often for things that do not matter. How would you fix that?

What they are checking: Whether they understand alert fatigue and know how to alert on symptoms customers feel rather than every metric.

About the work

How do you define SLOs for a search platform where both latency and result freshness matter to customers?

What they are checking: Whether they can pick reliability targets that reflect what customers actually feel, not just what is easy to measure.

How would you approach reliability for a Kubernetes platform on AWS running hundreds of services?

What they are checking: Whether they think in systems, like shared failure modes, capacity and blast radius, rather than service by service.

How do you approach observability for LLM-powered features where latency and cost can swing widely?

What they are checking: Whether they can extend reliability practice to AI workloads with new failure and cost patterns.

How do you do capacity planning for a system whose load spikes around earnings season?

What they are checking: Whether they plan for predictable business-driven load patterns rather than average traffic.

What does a good blameless postmortem look like, and how do you make sure the action items actually get done?

What they are checking: Whether they know postmortems fail through forgotten follow-ups and have a way to keep teams accountable.

How would you design for a regional AWS outage for a platform that the majority of the S&P 500 relies on?

What they are checking: Whether they can weigh the cost and complexity of multi-region resilience against realistic business needs.

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The full job description

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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 Role:&nbsp; Our Site Reliability Engineering team is growing, and we are looking for a highly experienced Staff Site Reliability Engineer to help shape the future of reliability, scalability, and performance at AlphaSense. This is a hands-on, high-impact role where you will architect core reliability platforms, lead by example in incident response, and drive cultural adoption of SRE best practices across our global engineering organization. Our mission is to engineer our platform to the reliability standards of mission-critical systems, targeting 99.99% uptime, while continuously enhancing our systems and processes. This role is key to that mission and goes beyond traditional system maintenance; it’s about pioneering the platforms, practices, and culture that enable engineering to scale effectively. You will act as a force multiplier, mentoring fellow engineers, influencing architectural decisions, and setting the technical bar for reliability across the company. Who You Are: • 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or a similar role, with at least 3+ of those years operating in a Senior+ SRE position • Strong background in running production SaaS systems at scale. • Proficiency in at least one programming/scripting language (Python, Go, or similar). • Hands-on expertise with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and Kubernetes. • Deep understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/S, load balancing). • Experience with monitoring & alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK). • Familiarity with advanced observability (OTEL, continuous profiling). • Proven incident management experience, including leading high-severity incidents and postmortems. • Strong troubleshooting skills across the full stack. • Excellent communication and collaboration skills. What You’ll Do: &nbsp; • Architect Reliability Paved Paths: Build frameworks and self-service tooling that let teams own the reliability of their services in a “You Build It, You Run It” culture. • Lead AI-Driven Reliability: Drive our AIOps strategy — automating diagnostics, remediation, and proactive failure prevention. • Champion Reliability Culture: Embed SRE practices across engineering via design reviews, production readiness, and operational standards. • Incident Leadership: Act as Incident Commander during critical events, modeling operational excellence, and ensuring blameless postmortems lead to lasting improvements. • Advance Observability: Deliver end-to-end monitoring, tracing, and profiling (Prometheus, Grafana, OTEL, Continuous Profiling) to optimize performance proactively. • Mentor & Multiply: Elevate engineers across SRE and product teams through mentorship, technical guidance, and knowledge sharing. 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 $150,000 &mdash; $225,000 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. 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