Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Alteryx is a leading company in data analytics, automation, and AI, seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their cloud platform engineering team. The role involves designing and building backend services for orchestration and job execution, ensuring reliability and scalability in cloud-native systems.
Responsibilities
- Design and deliver backend services, APIs, workers, and shared libraries that power cloud platform capabilities
- Build and improve systems for orchestrating work across services, including job submission, execution tracking, status propagation, retries, cancellation, results, and operational visibility
- Develop reliable asynchronous and event-driven systems using queues, messaging, background workers, and durable state
- Work on distributed execution flows across platform services, including service-to-service communication, routing, acknowledgements, and failure recovery
- Build and maintain cloud-native runtime infrastructure using containers, Kubernetes, deployment automation, and related platform tooling
- Integrate platform services with persistence layers, event streams, REST APIs, and internal service contracts
- Improve production reliability through metrics, tracing, structured logging, health checks, dashboards, alerting, runbooks, and incident follow-up
- Lead technical design for ambiguous or cross-service work, review code with a systems mindset, and mentor engineers on distributed-system and production-engineering practices
- Collaborate with partner teams to turn product requirements into incremental, testable, and operable platform capabilities
- Use AI and modern development tools to improve engineering productivity, code quality, and delivery speed
Skills
- 5+ years preferred (4+ years minimum) of professional software development experience, with meaningful ownership of production backend services, cloud platform capabilities, or distributed systems
- Strong experience building backend services using TypeScript/Node.js, or core systems languages like Go, Java, or Rust (with a willingness to code primarily in Node.js)
- Experience designing and operating asynchronous, queue-driven, or event-driven systems, including patterns such as retries, cancellation, idempotency, concurrency, ordering, timeouts, and failure handling
- Experience working with durable persistence, service contracts, RESTful APIs, and integrations across multiple services or platform components
- Experience with production systems including containers, Kubernetes or similar orchestration platforms, 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
- 3+ years of Python and C++ design, development, and debugging experience preferably leveraging open source and open standards
- Design, implement, and maintain embedded Python runtime integration in a predominantly C++ engine/host environment
- Own and evolve the Alteryx Python Tool including C++ plugin engines and process lifecycle (server startup, persistence, shutdown)
- Develop and troubleshoot SDK engine plugin components (e.g., gRPC-based engine plugins, streaming pipelines) in C++ with Python-facing APIs
- Debug complex native/runtime issues involving DLL/.pyd conflicts, OpenSSL and other native libraries across multiple Python versions
- Lead modernization work around virtualenv/venv management and installer/packaging plumbing, including WiX (installer) and native DLL exports
- Maintain and extend native/compiled Python extensions, ensuring compatibility with modern NumPy/CPython ABIs
- Collaborate with security and platform teams to remediate native library vulnerabilities (e.g., c-ares, libxml2, SQLite, OpenSSL) and keep the SBOM healthy
- Improve and support developer SDKs (v1/v2), including debugging C++/Python streaming and serialization issues for 1P and 3P tool authors
- Drive reliability and performance improvements in engine ↔ Python bridges, focusing on deadlocks, crashes, and high-throughput streaming scenarios
- Contribute to and maintain CI/CD pipelines and code-quality tooling (e.g., C++ docs jobs, coverage, static analysis) affecting C++/Python hybrid repos
- Author and maintain architecture and operational runbooks for C++/Python integration points, including upgrade playbooks for new Python/OpenSSL versions
- Mentor other engineers in best practices for native–Python interop, debugging cross-language issues, and designing robust extension points
- Experience with (REST) API and/or SDK development
- MS/BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Experience with object oriented and functional design patterns
- Experience using Git and Git-based pipelines or equivalent
- Experience mentoring and developing others
- Strong skills in critical thinking, decision making, problem solving, and attention to detail
- Growth focused and curious about new challenges and experiences
- Experience with workflow engines, orchestration systems, job runners, task execution platforms, or runtime infrastructure
- Experience with Kubernetes deployment patterns, GitOps, multi-cluster environments, cloud platform operations, or infrastructure automation
- Experience with messaging systems, event contracts, schema management, asynchronous notification pipelines, or distributed service coordination
- Experience with real-time communication, long-lived connections, service-to-service messaging, or coordination across unreliable networks
- Experience with secure service-to-service authentication, token handling, secrets management, authorization boundaries, or customer-scoped execution contexts
- Experience with log collection, log streaming, distributed workload observability, operational dashboards, or production support tooling
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- Node.js
- Familiarity with cloud computing / managed services (GCP/Azure/AWS)
- Experience or familiarity with AI-driven development in a modern IDE
- Front end experience in React or a similar framework including Javascript and JSON
- Experience with optimizing protocols and building efficient RPC systems
- Networking & concurrency experience
- Knowledge and experience with distributed computing, big data and stream processing systems
- Container experience: Docker, Kubernetes
- Rust and/or Golang familiarity
- Experience with a data prep and blend and predictive analytics workflow platform such as Alteryx
Benefits
- Employees may also be eligible for a wide range of other benefits, such as a bonus or commission, medical, retirement, financial, wellness, time off, employee discounts, and others.
- Alteryx has amazing benefits for all Associates which can be viewed here.
Company Overview
Alteryx is a leading provider of an end to end data science & analytics platform for the enterprise It was founded in 2011, and is headquartered in Irvine, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://alteryx.com.