Principal Engineer - Core Cloud Platform

Overview

Principal Engineer on the Core Cloud Platform team, owning AlphaSense's cloud infrastructure including AWS, networking, data storages and Kubernetes clusters, with dedicated ownership of the cloud-side configuration and Helm chart layer.

What you'll do

• Own the architectural roadmap for our cloud, Kubernetes, and storage platform
• Own cloud-side configuration and the Helm chart layer for Cloud Core
• Build the cell registry and automate provisioning to take new cell setup from weeks to days
• Design the cross-cell gate mechanism as the reusable standard checkpoint across every cell
• Own, operate and evolve our Cloud and Kubernetes platform, including our data storage layers
• Make operations (upgrades, patching, lifecycle management) routine across hundreds of clusters
• Continuously improve the security, reliability, cost efficiency and performance of our infrastructure
• Champion standards and drive initiatives to promote uniformisation and eliminate duplication
• Enable truly self-service and agentic workflow patterns that support a Build it - Own it model
• Build tooling and AI powered integrations that reduce the cognitive load in cloud
• Architect, design and implement simple and maintainable solutions

What you'll need

• Extremely experienced in Kubernetes and its various components, containerisation and AWS cloud
• Proven track record of running Kubernetes and Cloud based production SaaS systems at scale
• Experience operating Kubernetes as a large fleet with hundreds of clusters
• Strong knowledge of data storages across SQL, MongoDB, ClickHouse and Elasticsearch
• Strong operational and troubleshooting skill with Kubernetes, databases and messaging systems
• Deep understanding of networking and production level usage of service meshes and gateways
• Experience separating infrastructure configuration from application code at scale
• Experience with cell-based, multi-tenant or multi-region architectures
• Proficiency in Python and Golang
• Evangelist of highly performant CI/CD practices that are supportive of agentic workflows
• Ability and desire to design, lead, influence and deliver on ambitious technical roadmaps

Nice to have

• Experience with Vespa
• Automated provisioning of new environments, regions or cells end-to-end
• Management of large fleets of Kubernetes clusters with lifecycle management tools
• Production usage of Hashicorp Vault or similar secret management systems

Details

• Remote, United Kingdom