About the role

Role Overview

Senior Software Engineer (Dataplane) at Alteryx. Full-stack engineering role building the foundation of Alteryx’s next-generation cloud platform, with primary focus on backend development.

Responsibilities

Build scalable services, APIs, and distributed systems primarily using Go.
Develop and operate production cloud applications on AWS or GCP.
Use modern cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, and Terraform.
Improve engineering practices with the team, including testing, CI/CD pipelines, and continuous integration.
Troubleshoot issues across application code, cloud infrastructure, and production environments.

Requirements

5+ years of professional software development experience.
Strong backend experience with Go, REST APIs, and distributed systems.
Frontend experience with React and TypeScript/JavaScript (or similar frameworks).
Experience with testing, CI/CD pipelines, Git, and modern development practices.
Ability to troubleshoot across code and production cloud environments.
Experience developing and operating production cloud applications on AWS or GCP.
Familiarity with microservices and cloud-native application design.

Nice-to-haves / Additional Skills

Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Terraform and/or Infrastructure as Code.
Messaging technologies such as Kafka, Redis, or Pub/Sub.
Cloud provisioning, orchestration, or platform management systems.
Observability/monitoring and distributed tracing.
System architecture, technical design, and engineering best practices.
Multi-tenant SaaS platforms and/or workflow orchestration.

About Alteryx

Alteryx is a data analytics company focused on helping organizations analyze and transform data. The role sits within the company’s next-generation cloud platform engineering, spanning backend services and cloud-native infrastructure.