Principal Cloud DX Software Engineer (CI/CD)

Overview

Principal Engineer to own and architect the CI/CD and configuration management for AlphaSense's growing fleet of production environments, with organisation-wide technical influence across the Cloud DX team.

What you'll do

• 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

What you'll need

• 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

Nice to have

• 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)

Details

• Remote, United States
• Base compensation range $246,000 to $339,000 USD; may also be offered performance-based bonus and equity