Principal Cloud DX Software Engineer

Who you are

• Requires deep operational and software engineering skill, and the ability to set technical direction across timezones with Engineering leaders, Security, and very senior engineers across many teams
• 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 organisation
• Experience in Platform Engineering focused on CI/CD at companies with 250+ engineers
• Experience owning and operating a CI/CD platform at admin and architecture level, including security, configuration, and enablement
• Fluent in GitOps and declarative configuration at scale
• Proven ability to design and operate delivery systems at large scale
• Hands-on production-quality software development experience
• Passion for progressive delivery practices: canary deployments & automated rollbacks
• Experience 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
• Stood up a new production regions or isolated deployments end-to-end
• Background in both product software engineering and platform engineering
• Working knowledge of RBAC, OAuth, and compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR)

What the job involves

• 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
• We've built a strong delivery foundation with automated pipelines, GitOps workflows for both code and infrastructure, and a self-service developer platform that hundreds of engineers ship through every hour
• Now we're taking it to a new scale. Our next ambitious goals take us from dozens of production systems to hundreds, running hundreds of microservices across hundreds of Kubernetes clusters
• This is the role for the person who architects that next generation. We're looking for a Principal Engineer to work with our team to shape and deliver the architecture for how AlphaSense builds, configures, and safely ships software into a growing fleet of independent production environments expanding into new regions and isolated deployments without multiplying operational cost or slowing product teams down
• Progressive delivery, canary deployments, automated rollbacks, trunk-based development, and GitOps are the direction we're actively building; at Principal level you'll define what best-in-class looks like here and bring dozens of teams with you
• This is a hands-on role with organisation-wide influence. You'll shape the engineering practices a global organisation depends on
• Own the CI/CD and configuration management architecture across our production fleet
• Make spinning up a new production environment a templated operation, not a project
• Define reference architectures with performance profiles tuned per target cluster scale
• Solve version skew and release cadence across environments moving at different speeds
• Set the progressive delivery standard: canary, automated rollback, safe-by-default releases
• Build the paved paths that let product teams ship anywhere without platform knowledge
• Own delivery end-to-end and drive pipeline reliability, speed, and predictability
• Evolve our Internal Developer Portal and the self-service experience around it
• Partner with Cloud Platform, Security, and Compliance on the controls delivery must satisfy
• Set technical direction across the org and mentor Staff and Senior engineers
• Embed AI tooling into delivery workflows for lasting productivity gains

Benefits

• Work from home opportunities