Director of Developer Platform Engineering — Remote

Alteryx Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Connectivity stipend

Home office reimbursement

Medical/dental/vision

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

Mental health support

Career development

Job summary

Alteryx Inc. is seeking a Director, Developer Platform Engineering to own the strategy and evolution of platforms, tooling, and practices powering software delivery across the company.

You will lead the Developer Experience vision to enable 600+ engineers to build, test, deploy, and operate software faster and more reliably. The role is remote-friendly and reports to the SVP of Engineering, collaborating with Product Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, SRE, and Architecture to shape the

Qualifications

• Ten or more years in software engineering with leadership in platform engineering or developer infrastructure.
• Five or more years of experience leading managers in large tech organizations.
• Proven track record defining platform strategy for orgs with hundreds of engineers.

Responsibilities

• Platform Strategy — define long-term vision and a scalable SDLC roadmap.
• Developer Experience — own end-to-end journey from local dev to production.
• CI/CD & Release Engineering — modernize pipelines and enable progressive delivery.
• Integration Testing — establish scalable testing infrastructure.
• AI-Enabled Engineering — lead GenAI and agentic tooling adoption.
• Metrics & Operational Excellence — define KPIs and dashboards.
• Leadership — recruit and mentor managers and engineers.

Skills

10+ years in software engineering

5+ years leading managers

Platform strategy leadership

CI/CD and DevOps

Large-scale engineering transformation

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's in CS or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

ArgoCD

Flux

Gradle

Bazel

Nx

Job description

Alteryx Inc. is seeking a Director, Developer Platform Engineering to own the strategy and evolution of platforms, tooling, and practices powering software delivery across the company.

You will lead the Developer Experience vision to enable 600+ engineers to build, test, deploy, and operate software faster and more reliably. The role is remote-friendly and reports to the SVP of Engineering, collaborating with Product Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, SRE, and Architecture to shape the