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AlphaSense is an AI platform for market intelligence and workflow orchestration, trusted by thousands of leading organizations. The platform combines domain-specific AI with over 500 million premium business documents to help teams extract insights, uncover trends, and automate workflows.
The Core Cloud Platform team is responsible for AlphaSense's entire cloud infrastructure, including AWS account management, networking, data storage, and Kubernetes clusters. The platform supports hundreds of services used by over 400 globally distributed engineers.
As Principal Engineer, you will set the architectural roadmap for the cloud, Kubernetes, and storage platform as it scales with company growth. You'll take dedicated ownership of cloud-side configuration and the Helm chart layer that every service depends on. The role requires both operational and software development expertise, with the ability to lead ambitious technical programs and set direction with senior engineering leaders across dozens of teams.
Key responsibilities include:
- Own the architectural roadmap for cloud, Kubernetes, and storage platform
- Own cloud-side configuration and Helm chart layer for Cloud Core
- Build the cell registry and automate provisioning to reduce new cell setup from weeks to days
- Design the cross-cell gate mechanism as a reusable standard checkpoint
- Own, operate, and evolve the Cloud and Kubernetes platform, including data storage layers
- Make operations (upgrades, patching, lifecycle management) routine across hundreds of clusters
- Continuously improve security, reliability, cost efficiency, and performance
- Champion standards and drive initiatives to promote uniformization
- Enable self-service and agentic workflow patterns supporting a Build it - Own it model
- Build tooling and AI-powered integrations to reduce cognitive load
- Architect, design, and implement simple, maintainable solutions
The company values AI tooling adoption and seeks someone motivated to make infrastructure AI-friendly. While headquartered in Helsinki with an office there, AlphaSense is distributed and values outcomes over time, with flexible working arrangements and typically one office meeting per week.
Requirements:
- Extremely experienced in Kubernetes and its components, containerization, and AWS cloud
- Proven track record running Kubernetes and cloud-based production SaaS systems at scale
- Experience operating Kubernetes as a large fleet with hundreds of clusters
- Strong knowledge of data storage across SQL, MongoDB, ClickHouse, and Elasticsearch
- Strong operational and troubleshooting skills with Kubernetes, databases, and messaging systems
- Deep understanding of networking and production-level usage of service meshes and gateways
- Experience separating infrastructure configuration from application code at scale
- Experience with cell-based, multi-tenant, or multi-region architectures
- Proficiency in Python and Golang
- Evangelist of highly performant CI/CD practices supportive of agentic workflows
- Ability and desire to design, lead, influence, and deliver on ambitious technical roadmaps
Nice to have:
- Experience with Vespa
- Automated provisioning of new environments, regions, or cells end-to-end
- Management of large fleets of Kubernetes clusters with lifecycle management tools
- Production usage of Hashicorp Vault or similar secret management systems
