Remote Data Platform DevOps Engineer

Alteryx Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 139,000 - 154,000; Full time

Job summary

Alteryx, Inc. is seeking a DevOps Platform Engineer to strengthen data product delivery standards, automation, and operational practices across the data ecosystem. You will work with dbt, Snowflake, GitLab, and related platforms to enable federated data teams to deliver trusted data at scale.

The role focuses on improving CI/CD workflows, release readiness, observability, and incident response while collaborating with data leads and cross-functional teams in a remote-friendly environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in data engineering, analytics engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, or related field.
• Hands-on experience supporting production data pipelines or analytics workloads in enterprise environments.
• Strong experience with Snowflake, SQL, dbt, GitLab, and CI/CD workflows.
• Experience implementing or supporting automated testing, linting, validation, deployment checks, or code quality standards.
• Familiarity with release management, change management, deployment coordination, or production readiness practices.
• Proficiency in observability, alerting, monitoring, runbooks, and incident response for data pipelines.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex pipeline, environment, dependency, and data quality issues with minimal guidance.
• Excellent communication, documentation, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain reusable engineering patterns, standards, templates, and guardrails for data product delivery across platforms.
• Maintain code quality practices including linting, formatting, naming conventions, MR templates, and review expectations.
• Improve CI/CD workflows with automated testing, validation, 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 dashboards.
• Support production incidents with triage, root-cause analysis, and runbook improvements.
• Maintain environment management across development, test, and production with configuration and deployment consistency.
• Improve developer experience through documentation, self-service guidance, automation, and streamlined processes.
• Support federated teams in adopting reusable patterns and quality standards.

Skills

Snowflake

SQL

dbt

GitLab

CI/CD

Education

BS/BA in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Airflow

GitLab

Job description

Alteryx, Inc. is seeking a DevOps Platform Engineer to strengthen data product delivery standards, automation, and operational practices across the data ecosystem. You will work with dbt, Snowflake, GitLab, and related platforms to enable federated data teams to deliver trusted data at scale.

The role focuses on improving CI/CD workflows, release readiness, observability, and incident response while collaborating with data leads and cross-functional teams in a remote-friendly environment.