At a glance
- Experience
- 5+ years experience
- Workplace
- Remote
- Location
- India
About the role
- AlphaSense is seeking an experienced engineer to work on the search platform that powers market intelligence across billions of documents.
- You will tackle the challenge of building distributed systems that handle hundreds of queries per second with millisecond latency, while establishing engineering excellence for enterprise customers.
Responsibilities
- 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 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
Preferred qualifications
- 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
Workplace
- Remote - India / Europe
Skills
- Vespa
- Elasticsearch
- Solr
- Kubernetes
- CRDs
- JVM
