Senior Engineering Manager - Product Platforms

The role

You will lead teams building API-first platforms and a usage platform that meters AI credit consumption. You will manage hiring, growth, delivery, and operational health while partnering with Product, Platform, SRE, and Finance teams.

What you will do

• Lead, grow, and develop a team of backend and platform engineers
• Own delivery including roadmap commitments and execution quality
• Own the direction of usage metering and AI credit accounting
• Partner with Product to shape a platform roadmap
• Hire strong engineers and build a healthy pipeline
• Uphold API governance, versioning strategy, and backward compatibility
• Own operational excellence including SLOs, observability, and on-call health
• Partner with Finance, RevOps, and Pricing on consumption models
• Create clarity in ambiguous, cross-team problems
• Grow senior ICs and tech leads

Required qualifications

• Proven experience managing backend or platform engineering teams, including hiring, performance management, and career development
• Strong hands-on engineering background in backend or distributed systems prior to management
• Experience with product platforms or shared services consumed by multiple product teams
• Track record of delivering and operating APIs at scale, with strong grounding in RESTful API design
• Experience with data-intensive systems: high-volume event ingestion, aggregation, and reporting
• Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to influence technical direction across teams
• Strong written and verbal communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Nice to have

• Experience with consumption or usage-based business models: metering, rating, entitlements, quotas, and billing integrations
• Experience with AI cost, token, or credit accounting systems
• Experience building or enabling agentic and AI-driven workflows, including orchestration, state management, and integration patterns
• Familiarity with MCP (Model Context Protocol) or similar agent integration patterns
• Some experience with GraphQL (design, usage, or operating in production)
• Experience working in large-scale, distributed systems environments
• Experience working closely with Platform and SRE teams
• Experience leading globally distributed teams

About the company

AlphaSense is the AI platform redefining market intelligence and workflow orchestration. The platform combines domain-specific AI with a vast content universe of over 500 million premium business documents.