AlphaSense

Senior Software Engineer – Search

AlphaSense

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: India

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

Distributed SystemsElasticSearchKubernetes

About the role

  • 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
  • Drive Technical Strategy: Own the platform roadmap, making architectural decisions that will scale 10x

Requirements

  • 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
  • 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.
Benefits
  • Health insurance
  • 401(k) matching
  • Flexible work hours
  • Paid time off
  • Remote work options
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
distributed systemsperformance optimizationdata pipeline architecturereal-time processingdatabase internalsmonitoringalertingsearch platformsKubernetesJVM-based systems
Soft Skills
leadershipstrategic thinkingproblem-solvingcommunicationcollaboration