Staff Software Engineer – Core Developer Experience (DevEx)

About AlphaSense: The world’s most sophisticated companies rely on AlphaSense to remove uncertainty from decision-making. With market intelligence and search built on proven AI, AlphaSense delivers insights that matter from content you can trust. Our universe of public and private content includes equity research, company filings, event transcripts, expert calls, news, trade journals, and clients’ own research content. The acquisition of Tegus by AlphaSense in 2024 advances our shared mission to empower professionals to make smarter decisions through AI-driven market intelligence. Together, AlphaSense and Tegus will accelerate growth, innovation, and content expansion, with complementary product and content capabilities that enable users to unearth even more comprehensive insights from thousands of content sets. Our platform is trusted by over 6,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500. Founded in 2011, AlphaSense is headquartered in New York City with more than 2,000 employees across the globe and offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, Singapore, Canada, and Ireland. Come join us! The Role: We’re looking for a Staff Engineer to join the Core Developer Experience (Core DX) team and help make AlphaSense an exceptional environment for building software. In this role, you’ll focus on enabling engineers to work at high velocity, with confidence and flow, by reducing friction and improving the speed and quality of feedback in local development. You’ll design and evolve the tools, environments, and workflows that support fast, reliable iteration for ~400 engineers globally. Core DX owns the inner loop of development, the day-to-day experience of writing, building, and testing code, along with the internal developer platform, self-service tooling, and developer productivity insights that support it. This is distinct from Cloud Platform DX (outer loop), which owns CI/CD and production infrastructure. You’ll work closely with Cloud DX to ensure a seamless SDLC experience from local development to production, while staying focused on the developer-facing side of that journey. A key part of this role is embedding AI into the SDLC in a way that meaningfully augments engineers’ day-to-day workflows, from code authoring to debugging and testing, while ensuring consistent quality and safe adoption at scale. Responsibilities: Improve the inner development loop (local dev, build, test) for fast, reliable feedback Integrate and advance AI across the SDLC (coding, testing, documentation, workflows) Improve developer experience around CI/CD collaboration with CloudDX Identify and eliminate friction across the developer journey Build and evolve self-service tooling and internal platforms (DX/IDP) Establish and improve developer productivity metrics and engineering insights (e.g., DORA, DX) Enable engineering scalability through better tooling, shared libraries, standards, and automation Partner across teams to improve developer experience without blocking autonomy Requirements: Strong experience in Developer Experience, Platform Engineering, or Internal Tooling Proven experience building, rolling out, and operating internal developer platforms (IDP) Track record of improving developer workflows and productivity at scale Hands-on experience with CI/CD, improving reliability, speed, and predictability Experience defining and using developer productivity metrics (e.g., DORA, DX insights) Ability to identify systemic friction and solve it with pragmatic, scalable solutions Experience building self-service platforms, tooling, and paved paths Hands-on experience with, or strong drive to adopt, AI-enabled workflows across the SDLC Passion for using AI to improve engineering velocity, quality, and developer experience Strong collaboration skills and ability to influence across teams Nice to have: Experience with progressive delivery Familiarity with cloud-native architectures and Kubernetes-based platforms Experience with test pla