Cloud Platform Engineer: Orchestration & Jobs

Alteryx Inc.; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Alteryx is hiring a Software Engineer for the cloud platform engineering team, focusing on orchestration, job execution, and workflow runtime services. You will design, build, and operate backend services, APIs, workers, and shared libraries powering Alteryx Cloud.

The role emphasizes backend work with modern cloud-native stacks, TypeScript/Node.js, databases, messaging, containers, Kubernetes, and observability tooling.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience building and maintaining production software.
• Experience with backend APIs and services.
• Familiarity with asynchronous processing and distributed systems.
• Proficient in writing tests and debugging across services.
• Ability to estimate work and communicate blockers.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, operate backend services and APIs.
• Develop workflow orchestration and job execution features.
• Implement scalable cloud-native infrastructure using containers and Kubernetes.
• Write tests and ensure reliability with metrics and tracing.
• Collaborate with platform, product, security, and QA teams.

Skills

Backend development

APIs and services

Distributed systems

TypeScript

Node.js

Kubernetes

Observability tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/engineering

Tools

Relational databases

Messaging systems

Containers

Kubernetes

Observability tooling

Job description

Alteryx is hiring a Software Engineer for the cloud platform engineering team, focusing on orchestration, job execution, and workflow runtime services. You will design, build, and operate backend services, APIs, workers, and shared libraries powering Alteryx Cloud.

The role emphasizes backend work with modern cloud-native stacks, TypeScript/Node.js, databases, messaging, containers, Kubernetes, and observability tooling.