Senior Cloud Platform Engineer: Data Plane & Connectivity

Alteryx, Inc.; California; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Connectivity stipend and home office

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

401(k) with company match

Parental leave and flexible time off

Mental health support and wellness

Job summary

Alteryx, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Data Plane Transport team within Cloud Platform Engineering.

You will design, develop, and operate backend services and APIs in Go, focusing on secure, scalable distributed systems across AWS and GCP, with opportunities to contribute to frontend work in TypeScript and React. This hands-on role includes end-to-end ownership, on-call rotation, and mentoring other engineers, with remote-friendly arrangements and collaboration with

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong Go backend development experience.
• Experience designing, building, and operating production services using REST APIs, microservices, and distributed system architectures.
• Hands-on experience developing and operating cloud-native applications in AWS or GCP.
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals, including HTTP/TLS, TCP/IP, DNS, and service-to-service communication.
• Experience designing systems for scalability, reliability, fault tolerance, and failure recovery.
• Ability to independently investigate and troubleshoot complex issues spanning application code, infrastructure, and multiple services.
• Experience with automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, Git, and modern software development practices.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills, with the ability to independently drive technical decisions and complex engineering work.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services, APIs, and distributed systems, primarily using Go.
• Lead the design and implementation of secure connectivity solutions involving service registration, orchestration, routing, and proxy/relay-based communication.
• Own complex technical initiatives end-to-end, including solution design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Design and improve cloud-native services across AWS and GCP, with emphasis on scalability, reliability, security, and operational efficiency.
• Contribute to frontend applications and platform management experiences using TypeScript and React when needed.
• Investigate and resolve complex issues spanning application code, cloud infrastructure, networking, and multiple distributed services.
• Drive improvements in automated testing, system observability, monitoring, and operational readiness.
• Lead and contribute to technical design discussions, code reviews, and architectural decisions while mentoring other engineers.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Architecture, Infrastructure, Security, and other engineering teams to deliver cross-functional solutions.
• Participate in an on-call rotation, troubleshooting production issues, identifying root causes, and driving improvements.

Skills

Go backend

REST APIs

Distributed systems

CI/CD

Git

Troubleshooting

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Alteryx, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Data Plane Transport team within Cloud Platform Engineering.

You will design, develop, and operate backend services and APIs in Go, focusing on secure, scalable distributed systems across AWS and GCP, with opportunities to contribute to frontend work in TypeScript and React. This hands-on role includes end-to-end ownership, on-call rotation, and mentoring other engineers, with remote-friendly arrangements and collaboration with