Senior Director of Engineering, SRE

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!

About The Role

We are looking for a Senior Director of Engineering, SRE to define and lead reliability and operational excellence across AlphaSense’s products and platforms. This is a high-seniority, technically demanding role with broad organizational impact. Operating within AlphaSense’s “you build it, you run it” culture, success is defined by shaping how reliability and operations are practiced across a large engineering organization, enabling hundreds of engineers to build, run, and support production systems with confidence. The role leads and drives the evolution of Site Reliability Engineering at AlphaSense, with direct responsibility for the SRE team and significant influence on reliability practices across engineering. As the function matures, the role will scale its leadership capacity, while maintaining a globally distributed, follow-the-sun SRE operating model across the US, EU, and India.

Who You Are

• Several years of Senior leadership experience in Site Reliability Engineering capacity
• Deep knowledge of SRE principles and practices (SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, reliability economics)
• Experience building self-service systems through platform engineering
• Strong background in distributed systems and microservices
• Production experience operating Kubernetes-based platforms
• Solid understanding of cloud-native networking fundamentals
• Experience running systems in multi-cloud environments (AWS and at least one of GCP or Azure)
• Proven success scaling SRE practices across large engineering organizations
• Demonstrated experience building, mentoring, and developing high-performing SRE teams
• Ability to grow and sustain an inclusive, resilient engineering culture
• Experience operating in a “you build it, you run it” culture
• Ability to lead through influence and partnership

What You’ll Do

• Lead reliability and operational excellence across AlphaSense’s platforms and products
• Scale SRE practices in a “you build it, you run it” engineering organization
• Lead and grow a follow-the-sun SRE team across multiple time zones
• Build, mentor, and develop high-performing SRE engineers
• Own incident management, on-call operations, and post-incident learning
• Cultivate an awareness and culture of reliability throughout the engineering organization
• Set direction for observability and operational tooling
• Enable teams to operate production systems safely and confidently
• Embed reliability into the whole software delivery lifecycle in collaboration with Product, Platform, Cloud, and Security
• Reduce systemic risk through toil reduction and continuous improvement

Compensation Range

$186,000—$255,000 USD

Key skills/competency

• SRE Principles
• Operational Excellence
• Distributed Systems
• Kubernetes
• Multi-cloud Environments
• Incident Management
• Platform Engineering
• Reliability Economics
• Leadership
• Team Development