Remote Engineering Manager, Data Platform

Alteryx; United States; Remote; USD 136,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Alteryx is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a Data Plane Platform team building the foundation of our next-generation cloud platform. You will oversee a team across AWS, Azure, and GCP, driving scalable, secure, and reliable capabilities while partnering with Product, Architecture, Security, and SRE.

This remote-friendly role emphasizes leadership, delivery, and operational excellence. You will mentor 8–10 engineers, shape the roadmap, manage release readiness, and foster a

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2+ years of experience managing software engineering teams, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development.
• 3 to 5+ years of experience leading the delivery of complex software systems in SaaS, cloud platform, distributed systems, or enterprise software environments.
• Proven ability to deliver high-quality software through a team while balancing scope, schedule, quality, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Experience building backend services, APIs, and distributed systems using Go, Java, C#, Python, or similar programming languages.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud Platform.
• Strong people leadership skills, including coaching, feedback, performance management, career development, and building accountable, high-performing teams.
• Strong cross-functional partnership skills with the ability to align engineering delivery with product priorities, platform strategy, and organizational goals.
• Experience improving engineering practices such as planning, estimation, design reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, incident response, and technical debt management.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of 8–10 software engineers, including hiring, onboarding, performance management, career development, and promotion readiness.
• Foster an inclusive, collaborative, and high-performing engineering culture by setting clear expectations, providing timely feedback, and coaching engineers on execution, ownership, technical judgment, and stakeholder communication.
• Drive the team's technical execution and roadmap in partnership with Product, Architecture, and Engineering leadership.
• Translate product and engineering strategy into actionable plans, priorities, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
• Own release readiness activities, including quality gates, go/no-go decisions, incident reviews, and Sev1/Sev2 operational management.
• Own the team's delivery, quality, operational readiness, On Call and predictability, while managing capacity, execution risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs.
• Partner with Infrastructure, Security, SRE, and Architecture teams to improve platform reliability, observability, deployment automation, and operational excellence.
• Maintain strong engineering discipline across planning, estimation, design reviews, testing, CI/CD, incident management, retrospectives, and technical debt management.
• Provide technical leadership by reviewing designs, implementation approaches, and operational considerations to ensure quality, scalability, maintainability, and alignment with engineering standards.
• Clarify team ownership, responsibilities, and decision-making to enable efficient execution while maintaining quality and alignment.

Skills

People leadership

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Backend services & APIs

Distributed systems

Go/Java/C#/Python

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

Job description

Alteryx is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a Data Plane Platform team building the foundation of our next-generation cloud platform. You will oversee a team across AWS, Azure, and GCP, driving scalable, secure, and reliable capabilities while partnering with Product, Architecture, Security, and SRE.

This remote-friendly role emphasizes leadership, delivery, and operational excellence. You will mentor 8–10 engineers, shape the roadmap, manage release readiness, and foster a