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We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join Reference and Entity Data Systems (REDS) and own the design and evolution of our entity data platform — ingesting company data from global vendors, resolving it into authoritative records, and delivering accurate, timely data to downstream teams and customers. REDS owns vendor ingestion, entity generation, data quality and freshness, and delivery to downstream consumers.
If entity data is wrong, incomplete, or stale, everything downstream fails. Human validation still acts as a safety net in parts of the pipeline. Your mission is to systematically reduce that dependency by increasing correctness, confidence, and trust — without sacrificing speed or scale.
You will operate at the intersection of distributed systems, entity resolution, data quality, AI-assisted decision-making, and platform architecture.
Who You Are:- 8+ years building and operating large-scale production systems
- Proven experience with data ingestion, entity resolution, matching, or normalization at scale
- Deep expertise in one or more of: distributed systems, data pipelines, reference data platforms, platform engineering, or AI-powered classification and validation
- Strong code, system design, and architecture pattern skills
- Ability to design trustworthy systems combining probabilistic (AI) and deterministic approaches
- Delivery excellence: incident response, observability, and reliability improvements that stick
- Effective use of AI, testing, automation, and tooling to ship confidently
- Track record of setting standards, driving technical decisions, and elevating peers through documentation and mentoring
- Experience evolving or re-platforming live systems with many downstream consumers
- Experience with company or financial reference data, or vendor reconciliation
- Provenance, lineage, confidence-scoring, or quarantine/resolution workflows
- Integrating new data vendors end to end
- Cloud-native architectures and internal platforms shared across teams
- Own the architecture and evolution of a major area of the entity data platform
- Design systems that ingest and serve large volumes of heterogeneous vendor data at scale with high reliability, freshness, and accuracy
- Reduce manual validation overhead through AI-assisted resolution, confidence scoring, provenance, and deterministic matching rules
- Establish clear contracts for correctness and traceability — e.g., which source supplied a field, why an entity was matched or created
- Balance AI-driven and rules-based approaches where each improves reliability and explainability
- Deliver end-to-end integrations across ingestion, matching, entity generation, and delivery
- Respond to production incidents in your area; improve observability and reliability through iterative hardening
- Set engineering standards, mentor engineers, and partner with product and downstream consumers on quality bars and success metrics
For base compensation, we set standard ranges for all roles based on function and level benchmarked against similar stage growth companies and internal comparables. In order to be compliant with local legislation, as well as to provide greater transparency to candidates, we share salary ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience/expertise and may vary from the amounts listed below.
You may also be offered equity, and a generous benefits program.
AlphaSense is an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals. All employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling AlphaSense’s commitment to equal employment opportunity. AlphaSense does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, military or veteran status, disability, or any other non-merit factor. This policy applies to every aspect of employment at AlphaSense, including recruitment, hiring, training, advancement, and termination.
In addition, it is the policy of AlphaSense to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances where a particular employee works.
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