Senior Software Engineer - Search for AI-Driven Market Intelligence

About the Role

AlphaSense is seeking a Senior Software Engineer - Search to join our innovative team. As a Senior Software Engineer - Search remote, you will play a crucial role in enhancing our search platform, which powers market intelligence across billions of documents. This position offers the opportunity to tackle complex challenges while ensuring reliability for our enterprise customers.

What You'll Do

• 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.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience 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.

Nice to Have

• 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.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary ranging from $140,000 to $180,000 annually.
• Flexible remote work environment.
• Opportunities for professional growth and development.
• Collaborative team culture with a focus on innovation.
• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits.