Senior Software Engineer at Alteryx

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Alteryx is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their cloud platform engineering team. This role focuses on designing, building, operating, and evolving backend services responsible for coordinating work flow in Alteryx Cloud. The ideal candidate will own complex production systems end-to-end, reasoning about distributed systems, asynchronous processing, reliability, observability, and operational trade-offs. They will collaborate with various teams to ensure cloud platform capabilities are reliable, understandable, and safe at scale.

Required Skills

TypeScript/Node.js
relational databases
event-driven architecture
containers
Kubernetes
observability tooling
Python
C++

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Required Previous Experiences: Professional software development experience, with meaningful ownership of production backend services, cloud platform capabilities, or distributed systems.
Experience building backend services using TypeScript/Node.js, Go, Java, or Rust.
Experience designing and operating asynchronous, queue-driven, or event-driven systems.
Experience working with durable persistence, service contracts, RESTful APIs, and integrations across multiple services or platform components.
Experience with production systems including containers, Kubernetes, service health, scaling behavior, and operational debugging.
Strong production engineering ownership, including testing, observability, structured logging, metrics, tracing, incident response, and continuous reliability improvement.
Ability to lead design discussions, communicate technical tradeoffs clearly, mentor other engineers, and drive cross-team work through ambiguity with an ownership-oriented mindset.
Preferred Qualifications: Workflow engines, orchestration systems, job runners, task execution platforms, or runtime infrastructure.
Kubernetes deployment patterns, GitOps, multi-cluster environments, cloud platform operations, or infrastructure automation.
Messaging systems, event contracts, schema management, asynchronous notification pipelines, or distributed service coordination.
Real-time communication, long-lived connections, service-to-service messaging, or coordination across unreliable networks.
Secure service-to-service authentication, token handling, secrets management, authorization boundaries, or customer-scoped execution contexts.
Log collection, log streaming, distributed workload observability, operational dashboards, or production support tooling.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

About Alteryx

Alteryx

data analytics17200 Laguna Canyon Road, Irvine, CA 926181001-5000

Alteryx is a data analytics platform that enables analysts and enterprises to prepare, integrate, and analyze data, automate workflows, and deliver insights faster across multiple data systems using machine learning and AI.

Open roles: 73
Founded: 2011

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