Senior Software Engineer - Orchestration & Job Execution

Role Description

Alteryx is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our cloud platform engineering team. In this role, you will help design, build, operate, and evolve backend services that coordinate how work moves through Alteryx Cloud.

• Work on platform capabilities related to orchestration, job execution, workflow runtime services, and reliable service-to-service coordination.
• Own complex production systems end to end.
• Reason about distributed systems, asynchronous processing, reliability, observability, failure modes, and operational tradeoffs.
• Partner with platform, product, security, QE, and application teams to make cloud platform capabilities reliable, understandable, and safe to operate at scale.
• Build APIs, services, workers, libraries, and runtime infrastructure.
• Work with modern cloud-native systems and technologies such as TypeScript/Node.js, relational databases, messaging or queueing systems, event-driven architecture, containers, Kubernetes, and observability tooling.

Qualifications

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Requirements

• 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 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.

Benefits

• Salary range for this role in the United States is $119,000 - $153,000.
• Employees may also be eligible for a wide range of benefits, such as a bonus or commission, medical, retirement, financial, wellness, time off, employee discounts, and others.