# Principal Software Engineer

Hiring organization: [AlphaSense](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/alphasense)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/27ea46d8-cd3f-4806-8a2d-d1031d9ee783

Listed on AlphaSense's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Lead / Staff / Principal
- Location: Remote - United States
- Remote: yes
- Salary: 246000 – 339000 USD per year

## Summary

A Principal Engineer will design and oversee AlphaSense's platform for extracting and standardizing financial data from diverse document sources, balancing AI-driven systems with deterministic safeguards to reduce human validation overhead. This role suits experienced distributed systems engineers who can architect trustworthy, large-scale data platforms and mentor senior technical talent.

_Our summary, not AlphaSense's wording._

## Skills named

Data Pipelines, Java, Machine Learning, Python, Scala

## Required

- 15+ years building and operating large-scale production systems
- Experience designing data ingestion, extraction, or processing systems at scale
- Deep expertise in distributed systems, data platforms, AI/ML-powered extraction, or platform engineering
- Ability to design systems combining probabilistic and deterministic approaches
- Understanding of system reliability, observability, and failure modes
- Track record of technical leadership across teams

## Nice to have

- Experience with document understanding, NLP, or financial data extraction
- Experience building provenance, lineage, or confidence-scoring systems
- Familiarity with cloud-native architectures and modern data stacks
- Experience owning internal platforms used by multiple teams

Apply on AlphaSense's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/alphasense/jobs/8394619002