AlphaSense
Technology
PrincipalEngineer,DeveloperExperience(DevEx)
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“Principal Engineer, Developer Experience (DevEx) at AlphaSense. Skills: Developer Experience, Platform Engineering, AI-enabled SDLC, Technical strategy. Define DevEx strategy. Evolve DevEx strategy”
What You'll Achieve.
Deliver step-change improvements in developer productivity; Deliver step-change improvements in system reliability
Industry & Context.
Systems thinking; Operational thinking
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Extensive experience in DevEx, Extensive experience in Platform Engineering, Extensive experience in large-scale engineering systems, Deep systems thinking, Deep operational thinking, Grounded in software engineering background, Proven track record defining technical strategy, Proven track record driving technical strategy, Experience working across multiple domains, Experience with internal developer platforms, Experience enabling self-service ecosystems, Deep understanding of developer productivity, Deep understanding of metrics, Deep understanding of engineering insights, Experience improving CI/CD systems, Demonstrated ability to align multiple teams, Demonstrated ability to align stakeholders, Systems thinking, Ability to balance local needs vs global optimization, Recent experience driving AI-enabled development workflows, Recent experience adopting AI-enabled development workflows, Excellent communication skills, Excellent influencing skills, Experience with cloud-native architectures, Experience with Kubernetes-based platforms
Nice to Have
EST or UK timezone for overlap
What You'll Do.
Define DevEx strategy
Evolve DevEx strategy
Align efforts across Core DX
Align efforts across Cloud/Platform DX
Connect efforts across Core DX
Connect efforts across Cloud/Platform DX
Ensure holistic approach to DevEx
Avoid local optimizations
Identify improvements across developer journey
Drive improvements across developer journey
Establish developer productivity metrics
Standardize developer productivity metrics
Establish engineering insights
Standardize engineering insights
Guide evolution of internal developer platforms
Guide evolution of self-service capabilities
Drive consistency in CI/CD systems
Drive reliability in CI/CD systems
Ensure fast delivery workflows
Ensure predictable delivery workflows
Lead adoption of AI-enabled SDLC practices
Enable safe experimentation
Partner with engineering teams
Partner with SRE teams
Partner with platform teams
Influence direction without ownership
Act as technical leader
Raise bar for DevEx thinking
Raise bar for DevEx execution
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-organizational technical strategy; Multiple domains; Multiple teams and stakeholders; Engineering and leadership levels; Engineering teams; SRE teams; Platform teams
Communication Scope
Communication skills; Influencing skills
Full Job Description
About AlphaSense: 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 Team: The Developer Experience team enables engineers to do their best work with high velocity, strong confidence, and a seamless path from local development to production, while ensuring improvements are coordinated across domains rather than optimized in isolation. About the Role: We’re looking for a Principal Engineer in Developer Experience (DevEx) to shape and drive a holistic developer experience strategy across AlphaSense. This is a highly strategic, cross-cutting role focused on ensuring that developer experience evolves consistently and intentionally across the organization. You will operate across both Core Developer Experience (inner loop), that focused on local development, internal tooling, and productivity, and Cloud/Platform DX (outer loop), that focused on CI/CD and production systems, aligning efforts across teams with distinct ownership
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