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Sr Engineer, Software
Alphasense
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About this role
About AlphaSense:
Senior Platform Engineer - Search 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
AlphaSense is seeking an experienced engineer to work on the search platform that powers market intelligence across billions of documents. Youll tackle the challenge of building distributed systems that handle hundreds of queries per second with millisecond latency, while establishing engineering excellence that ensures reliability for our enterprise customers.
This role is perfect for a seasoned engineer who loves challenges and has a track record of building robust, high-performance systems. While search experience is valuable, we believe great engineers can master new domains - what matters most is your ability to build systems that scale and dont break.
What Youll Do
- Scale Distributed Systems: Architect and optimize infrastructure handling billions of documents and hundreds of queries per second
- Lead Platform Evolution: Drive the migration from legacy systems to modern architecture, ensuring zero downtime and improved performance
- Build Engineering Excellence: Establish comprehensive monitoring, testing, and deployment practices that catch issues before customers do
- Optimize Performance: Profile and tune systems from the infrastructure to the application level, balancing cost and performance
What Were Looking For
Required:
- 5+ years building and operating distributed systems in production
- Experience with large-scale data platforms or high-throughput systems
- Expertise in distributed systems fundamentals: sharding, replication, consistency, partition tolerance
- Strong performance optimization skills - you can profile, diagnose, and fix bottlenecks across the stack
- Experience with data pipeline architecture, real-time processing, or database internals
- Excellence in building observable systems with comprehensive monitoring and alerting
Preferred:
- Experience with search platforms (Vespa, Elasticsearch, Solr) or similar large-scale data systems
- Experience with Kubernetes, CRDs, and infrastructure as code
- Background in information retrieval, ranking systems, or recommendation engines
- Familiarity with hybrid search approaches (lexical and vector)
- Experience with JVM-based systems and tuning
- Knowledge of modern engineering practices from high-growth companies
Why This Role is Unique
Youll own a critical platform that directly impacts how customers discover insights. This isnt just about maintaining a search system - its about building the next generation of information retrieval at scale. Youll work with modern technologies (including hybrid lexical/vector search), but more importantly, youll apply your distributed systems expertise to solve fascinating scale challenges.
The best part Youll join a team of smart engineers who are eager to learn. Your experience in building bulletproof systems will directly elevate the entire teams capabilities.
Impact Youll Have
Within your first year, youll transform our search infrastructure from reactive to proactive, reduce latency, complete a major platform migration, and build systems that scale effortlessly with our growth. Most importantly, youll establish engineering practices that ensure we never hear about customer issues first.
Locations: Remote - India / Europe
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.
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Disclaimer: This job posting and Location has been aggregated from external source. Role details, content, and availability are subject to change. Applicants are advised to confirm the latest information directly on the company website before applying.
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Skills
Market IntelligenceKubernetesalphaDistributed Systemsdata systemsdata platformsinfrastructure as codeelastic searchdata pipeline architectureInformation RetrievaldeploymentEquity ResearchArchitectureEquityArtificial Intelligence
Section · Company
About AlphaSense
Alphasense
Software Product
51-200
employees
2011
15 years old
San Francisco,California
United States
About
AlphaSense India is part of AlphaSense, a global market intelligence and financial research platform. It provides AI-powered search and analytics solutions that help businesses, investors, and professionals access insights from financial documents, earnings calls, and market reports. Through its career opportunities, the firm highlights expertise in technology, data science, and client solutions, positioning itself as a leader in delivering actionable intelligence for strategic decision-making.
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