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AlphaSense is seeking a Principal Engineer in Developer Experience to shape and drive a holistic developer experience strategy across the organization. This is a highly strategic, cross-cutting role focused on ensuring developer experience evolves consistently and intentionally across the company.
You will operate across both Core Developer Experience (inner loop—local development, internal tooling, productivity) and Cloud/Platform DX (outer loop—CI/CD, production systems), aligning efforts across teams with distinct ownership to create a cohesive, end-to-end developer experience.
Key responsibilities include:
- Working closely with the Head of Developer Productivity & Experience and platform teams to define direction, priorities, and long-term strategy
- Establishing a clear system of developer productivity metrics and engineering insights to ensure decisions are data-informed
- Driving the transformation of the SDLC through AI, identifying where it can fundamentally change how the organization builds, tests, and operates software
- Leading AI adoption to deliver step-change improvements in developer productivity and system reliability
- Integrating AI deeply into day-to-day workflows while establishing standards, guardrails, and engineering practices
- Aligning multiple teams and stakeholders without direct authority
- Balancing local needs versus global optimization across the engineering organization
Required experience includes extensive background in DevEx, Platform Engineering, and large-scale engineering systems; deep systems and operational thinking grounded in strong software engineering; proven track record defining and driving cross-organizational technical strategy; experience across multiple domains (platform, cloud, CI/CD, developer tooling); strong experience with internal developer platforms (IDP) and self-service ecosystems; deep understanding of developer productivity metrics (DORA, DX); experience improving CI/CD systems for reliability, speed, and predictability at scale; demonstrated ability to align multiple teams without direct authority; strong systems thinking; recent experience driving or adopting AI-enabled development workflows; excellent communication and influencing skills; experience with cloud-native architectures and Kubernetes-based platforms; and familiarity with progressive delivery (feature flags, canary releases).
AlphaSense is a market intelligence platform trusted by over 6,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York City with 2,000+ employees globally.
