Cloud Platform Orchestrator - Backend Engineer

Alteryx Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 105,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

bonus or commission

medical

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time off

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Job summary

Alteryx Inc. is hiring a Software Engineer for the Orchestration & Job Execution team within the Cloud Platform.

You will design backend services, APIs, and workers that coordinate how work moves through Alteryx Cloud, with a focus on reliability and scalable orchestration. The role emphasizes hands-on backend development, modern cloud-native practices, and collaboration with platform, product, security, and QA teams to deliver secure, observable services.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of hands-on experience building and maintaining production software.
• Experience building backend services, APIs, or background workers and writing modular, readable, and performant code independently, preferably using TypeScript and Node.js.
• Experience owning feature-level work with moderate ambiguity, including basic design of small-to-medium systems or APIs and independent decisions within feature scope.
• Understanding of asynchronous and distributed processing concepts such as task dependencies, state transitions, retries, cancellation, idempotency, concurrency, and timeouts.
• Experience working with durable persistence, service integrations, and modern development and deployment practices, with the ability to investigate issues using logs, metrics, and existing operational tools.
• Experience writing effective unit and integration tests and applying basic quality, reliability, and security practices.
• Clear communication, realistic estimation, and an ownership mindset.
• You can collaborate with partner teams, communicate progress and blockers, and follow work through implementation, testing, rollout, and production support.

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.
• Participate constructively in code reviews, identify common bugs and style issues, and apply feedback to improve the quality of your work.
• 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

Backend services

TypeScript/Node.js

Unit & integration tests

Asynchronous processing

Collaboration & ownership

Tools

Kubernetes

Containers

Relational databases

Messaging systems

Observability tooling

Job description

Alteryx Inc. is hiring a Software Engineer for the Orchestration & Job Execution team within the Cloud Platform.

You will design backend services, APIs, and workers that coordinate how work moves through Alteryx Cloud, with a focus on reliability and scalable orchestration. The role emphasizes hands-on backend development, modern cloud-native practices, and collaboration with platform, product, security, and QA teams to deliver secure, observable services.