Staff Software Engineer

AlphaSense

Staff Software Engineer for the entity data platform at AlphaSense, managing global data ingestion and achieving high accuracy and reliability. Leading architecture, mentorship, and incident response.

Posted 6/4/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $202,400 - $278,300 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed Systems

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the architecture and evolution of a major area of the entity data platform
Design systems that process large volumes of heterogeneous vendor data with high reliability, freshness, and accuracy
Reduce manual validation overhead through AI-assisted resolution, confidence scoring, provenance, and deterministic matching rules
Establish clear contracts for correctness and traceability — e.g., which source supplied a field, why an entity was matched or created
Balance AI-driven and rules-based approaches where each improves reliability and explainability
Deliver end-to-end integrations across ingestion, matching, entity generation, and delivery
Respond to production incidents in your area; improve observability and reliability through iterative hardening
Set engineering standards, mentor engineers, and partner with product and downstream consumers on quality bars and success metrics

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years building and operating large-scale production systems
Proven experience with data ingestion, entity resolution, matching, or normalization at scale
Deep expertise in one or more of: distributed systems, data pipelines, reference data platforms, platform engineering, or AI-powered classification and validation
Strong code, system design, and architecture pattern skills
Ability to design trustworthy systems combining probabilistic (AI) and deterministic approaches
Delivery excellence: incident response, observability, and reliability improvements that stick
Effective use of AI, testing, automation, and tooling to ship confidently
Track record of setting standards, driving technical decisions, and elevating peers through documentation and mentoring
End-to-end ownership from integration through entity generation to operational readiness
Experience with company or financial reference data, or vendor reconciliation (preferred)
Provenance, lineage, confidence-scoring, or quarantine/resolution workflows (preferred)
Integrating new data vendors end to end (preferred)
Cloud-native architectures and internal platforms shared across teams (preferred)

Benefits

Comp & perks

equity
generous benefits program

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Hard Skills & Tools

data ingestionentity resolutionmatchingnormalizationdistributed systemsdata pipelinesplatform engineeringAI-powered classificationsystem designarchitecture patterns

Soft Skills

mentoringincident responsedelivery excellencesetting standardsdriving technical decisionsdocumentationeffective communicationcollaborationproblem-solvingleadership