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AlphaSense · 10 hours ago

Senior Director of Engineering, SRE

AlphaSense is a leading provider of AI-driven market intelligence, helping companies make informed decisions. They are seeking a Senior Director of Site Reliability Engineering to lead reliability and operational excellence across their products and platforms, shaping how reliability and operations are practiced within a large engineering organization.

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Responsibilities

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

Qualification

Site Reliability EngineeringDistributed systemsKubernetesMulti-cloud environmentsPlatform engineeringCloud-native networkingSRE principlesInclusive cultureMentoringLeadership

Required

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

Benefits

Equity
A generous benefits program

Company

AlphaSense

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AlphaSense is a platform harnessing AI to deliver insights, helping professionals make informed, impactful decisions. It is a sub-organization of AlphaSense.

H1B Sponsorship

AlphaSense has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (7)
2024 (1)
2023 (3)
2022 (3)
2021 (3)
2020 (4)

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$1.42B
Key Investors
BondCapitalGBlackRock
2024-06-11Series F· $650M
2023-09-28Series E· $150M
2023-04-11Series D· $100M

Leadership Team

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Jack Kokko
CEO and Founder
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Joe Hill
CFO
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