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Staff Software Engineer

AlphaSense

Skills

Required

  • AI
  • elevating peers
  • documentation
  • system design
  • architecture pattern
  • automation
  • probabilistic
  • code

Preferred

  • distributed systems / data pipelines / reference data platforms / platform engineering / AI-powered classification and validation
  • company or financial reference data / vendor reconciliation
  • entity resolution
  • data quality
  • AI-assisted decision-making
  • platform architecture
  • data ingestion / matching / normalization

Join our team as a Staff Software Engineer in the Reference and Entity Data Systems (REDS) division. You will be responsible for the design and evolution of our entity data platform, which involves ingesting company data from global vendors, resolving it into authoritative records, and delivering accurate and timely data to downstream teams and customers. Your mission will be to systematically reduce dependency on human validation by increasing correctness, confidence, and trust, without sacrificing speed or scale.

Responsibilities

  • You will operate at the intersection of distributed systems, entity resolution, data quality, AI-assisted decision-making, and platform architecture.
  • Conception et évolution de la plateforme de données d'entité, y compris l'ingestion de données, la résolution d'entités et la livraison.
  • Réduction de la dépendance à la validation humaine en augmentant la précision, la confiance et la fiabilité des systèmes.
  • Proven experience with data ingestion, entity resolution, matching, or normalization at scale
  • Integrating new data vendors end to end
  • Cloud-native architectures and internal platforms shared across teams

Requirements

  • Responsabilité de l'architecture et de l'évolution d'un domaine majeur de la plateforme de données d'entité, y compris la conception de systèmes à grande échelle.
  • Track record of setting standards, driving technical decisions, and elevating peers through documentation and mentoring
  • 8+ years building and operating large-scale production systems

Strong code, system design, and architecture pattern skills

  • Effective use of AI, testing, automation, and tooling to ship confidently
  • Ability to design trustworthy systems combining probabilistic (AI) and deterministic approaches
  • Delivery excellence: incident response, observability, and reliability improvements that stick
  • Experience evolving or re-platforming live systems with many downstream consumers
  • Provenance, lineage, confidence-scoring, or quarantine/resolution workflows

Preferred

  • Deep expertise in one or more of: distributed systems, data pipelines, reference data platforms, platform engineering, or AI-powered classification and validation
  • Experience with company or financial reference data, or vendor reconciliation