Staff Engineer – Core Developer Experience (DevEx)

We’re looking for a (Senior) 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.

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.

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 platforms / QA automation and improving feedback loops

Familiarity with modern frontend architectures and microfrontend delivery models

EST or UK timezone for closer overlap with direct team members

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

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