Principal Cloud DX Software Engineer (CI/CD)

AlphaSense is an AI-driven market intelligence company serving more than 6,000 enterprise customers with trusted public and private content. The Principal Cloud DX Software Engineer will architect and deliver the next generation of CI/CD, configuration management, progressive delivery, and self-service developer platforms across a global production fleet, while setting technical direction and embedding AI-assisted workflows into the software development lifecycle.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• 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
• 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)