Lead Cloud Platform Architect — Multi-Cloud & AI

Alteryx, Inc.; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 215,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

401(k) match

Parental leave

Wellness reimbursement

Job summary

Alteryx, Inc. is seeking a Principal Cloud Platform Architect to define the technical vision for a multi-tenant, multi-cloud SaaS platform. This hands-on leadership role sets standards, drives modernization, and ensures secure, reliable operation across regions.

You will work with Infra, Platform, SRE, Security, and Product Engineering to shape reference architectures, tooling, and deployment patterns while mentoring senior engineers and guiding architecture reviews.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software/cloud infrastructure engineering, including time at Principal Engineer/Architect level.
• Proven track record architecting large-scale, multi-region, multi-tenant cloud-native SaaS platforms.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems, Kubernetes, and containerized platforms.
• Strong experience with GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Solid grasp of cloud networking (load balancing, service discovery, ingress, DNS) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar).
• Experience with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog).
• Strong coding skills in Java, Python, Go, or similar.
• Excellent communication and consensus-building across engineering orgs.
• Leading enterprise cloud migrations or IDP/platform engineering builds.
• Experience with AI, analytics, or large-scale data platforms.
• Cloud security, governance, or compliance experience.

Responsibilities

• Own the long-term architecture for Alteryx's cloud platform, driving migrations and modernization initiatives.
• Design highly available, scalable architectures across compute, networking, storage, and platform services.
• Establish reference architectures and best practices; run architecture reviews for security, scalability, and reliability.
• Partner with Infrastructure, Platform, SRE, Security, and Product Engineering on strategy and execution.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, prototype approaches, and address architectural debt.
• Mentor senior engineers and raise architectural maturity org-wide.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure engineering

Architecting large-scale platforms

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure)

Cloud networking

Infrastructure as Code

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Datadog

Java

Python

Go

Communication

Cloud migrations

AI analytics

Cloud security

Job description

Alteryx, Inc. is seeking a Principal Cloud Platform Architect to define the technical vision for a multi-tenant, multi-cloud SaaS platform. This hands-on leadership role sets standards, drives modernization, and ensures secure, reliable operation across regions.

You will work with Infra, Platform, SRE, Security, and Product Engineering to shape reference architectures, tooling, and deployment patterns while mentoring senior engineers and guiding architecture reviews.