Staff Software Engineer

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Staff Software Engineer owning AlphaSense’s entity data platform. Building reliable AI-assisted systems for ingesting, resolving, and delivering trusted market intelligence data.

Responsibilities:

  • Own the architecture and evolution of a major area of the entity data platform
  • Design systems that ingest and serve large volumes of heterogeneous vendor data at scale with high reliability, freshness, and accuracy
  • Reduce manual validation overhead through AI-assisted resolution, confidence scoring, provenance, and deterministic matching rules
  • Establish contracts for correctness and traceability, including source attribution and entity matching/creation rationale
  • Balance AI-driven and rules-based approaches to improve reliability and explainability
  • Deliver end-to-end integrations across ingestion, matching, entity generation, and delivery
  • Respond to production incidents and 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:

  • 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, including incident response, observability, and reliability improvements
  • Effective use of AI, testing, automation, and tooling
  • Track record of setting standards, driving technical decisions, and elevating peers through documentation and mentoring
  • Experience evolving or re-platforming live systems with many downstream consumers
  • Preferred: experience with company or financial reference data, vendor reconciliation, provenance, lineage, confidence-scoring, quarantine/resolution workflows, integrating new data vendors end to end, and cloud-native architectures/internal platforms

Benefits:

  • Equity may be offered
  • Generous benefits program
  • Reasonable accommodation for qualified employees with protected disabilities, as required by applicable laws
  • Equal-opportunity work environment