Remote Data Platform DevOps Engineer

Alteryx, Inc.; Michigan; Hybrid; USD 139,000 - 154,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Retirement benefits

Wellness programs

Job summary

Alteryx, Inc. is seeking a DevOps Platform Engineer to strengthen standards, automation, and operational practices across our data platforms. You will work on data products delivered through dbt, Snowflake, GitLab, and related platforms within a data mesh model.

The role focuses on engineering patterns, CI/CD automation, release readiness, and observability to improve reliability, scalability, and developer experience across data engineering teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or related field.
• Hands-on experience supporting production data pipelines or analytics workloads in an enterprise environment.
• Strong experience with Snowflake, SQL development, dbt, GitLab or similar source control, and CI/CD workflows.
• Experience implementing automated testing, linting, validation, deployment checks, or code quality standards.
• Experience with release management, change management, deployment coordination, or production readiness practices.

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain reusable engineering patterns, standards, templates, and guardrails for data product delivery across platforms.
• Maintain code quality practices including linting, formatting, and review expectations.
• Improve CI/CD workflows with automated testing, deployment gates, and release readiness checks.
• Coordinate release and change management activities including deployment planning and post-release validation.
• Operationalize observability and alerting standards for production pipelines and data quality checks.
• Support production incidents through triage, root-cause analysis, and runbook improvements.
• Maintain environment management across development, test, and production with promotion rules and deployment consistency.

Skills

DevOps

Platform engineering

Data pipelines

CI/CD

Observability

Collaboration

Education

BA/BS in Information Science, Data Analytics, CS, Software Eng or related field

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

GitLab

SQL

CI/CD tooling

Airflow or similar

Job description

Alteryx, Inc. is seeking a DevOps Platform Engineer to strengthen standards, automation, and operational practices across our data platforms. You will work on data products delivered through dbt, Snowflake, GitLab, and related platforms within a data mesh model.

The role focuses on engineering patterns, CI/CD automation, release readiness, and observability to improve reliability, scalability, and developer experience across data engineering teams.