Senior Software Engineer - Orchestration & Job Execution

Alteryx; United States; On-site; USD 119,000 - 153,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus or commission

Medical benefits

Retirement plan

Employee discounts

Job summary

Alteryx is looking for a Senior Software Engineer - Orchestration & Job Execution to join our cloud platform engineering team. This role involves designing and building backend services that coordinate work through Alteryx Cloud, requiring a strong grasp of distributed systems, asynchronous processing, and cloud-native infrastructure.

The successful candidate will have at least 5 years of experience in software development with a focus on backend services, preferably using TypeScript/Node.js and experience in production environments. Alteryx offers diverse benefits and a commitment to an inclusive workplace.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong experience building backend services using TypeScript/Node.js.
• Experience designing and operating event-driven systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver backend services and APIs.
• Build systems for orchestrating work across services.
• Develop reliable asynchronous systems using messaging queues.

Skills

Backend services

TypeScript/Node.js

Cloud platform capabilities

Distributed systems

Asynchronous processing

Operational debugging

Leadership and mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Containers

REST APIs

Job description

Overview

Meet the Moment with Alteryx. We're living through a once-in-a-generation shift in how work gets done. Data, automation, and AI are quickly becoming the center of every business decision - and Alteryx is leading the transformation.

You'll be working on the challenges that sit at the heart of modern business. No matter your role, the work you do will help organizations move faster, see more clearly, and tackle questions that used to feel impossible. If you're ready to meet the moment with innovation, curiosity, and excellence, there's a place for you here.

Role

Senior Software Engineer - Orchestration & Job Execution (Cloud Platform). Alteryx is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our cloud platform engineering team. In this role, you will help design, build, operate, and evolve backend services that coordinate how work moves through Alteryx Cloud. You will work on platform capabilities related to orchestration, job execution, workflow runtime services, and reliable service-to-service coordination.

This is a senior engineering role for someone comfortable owning complex production systems end to end. You should be able to reason about distributed systems, asynchronous processing, reliability, observability, failure modes, and operational tradeoffs. You will partner with platform, product, security, QE, and application teams to make cloud platform capabilities reliable, understandable, and safe to operate at scale. The role is backend-heavy and involves building APIs, services, workers, libraries, and runtime infrastructure. You will work with modern cloud-native systems and technologies such as TypeScript/Node.js, relational databases, messaging or queueing systems, event-driven architecture, containers, Kubernetes, and observability tooling.

What You'll Do

• Design and deliver backend services, APIs, workers, and shared libraries that power cloud platform capabilities.
• Build and improve systems for orchestrating work across services, including job submission, execution tracking, status propagation, retries, cancellation, results, and operational visibility.
• Develop reliable asynchronous and event-driven systems using queues, messaging, background workers, and durable state.
• Work on distributed execution flows across platform services, including service-to-service communication, routing, acknowledgements, and failure recovery.
• Build and maintain cloud-native runtime infrastructure using containers, Kubernetes, deployment automation, and related platform tooling.
• Integrate platform services with persistence layers, event streams, REST APIs, and internal service contracts.
• Improve production reliability through metrics, tracing, structured logging, health checks, dashboards, alerting, runbooks, and incident follow-up.
• Lead technical design for ambiguous or cross-service work, review code with a systems mindset, and mentor engineers on distributed-system and production-engineering practices.
• Collaborate with partner teams to turn product requirements into incremental, testable, and operable platform capabilities.
• Use AI and modern development tools to improve engineering productivity, code quality, and delivery speed.

What We're Looking For

• Core Experience: 5+ years preferred (4+ years minimum) of professional software development experience, with meaningful ownership of production backend services, cloud platform capabilities, or distributed systems.
• Backend Ecosystem: Strong experience building backend services using TypeScript/Node.js, or core systems languages like Go, Java, or Rust (with a willingness to code primarily in Node.js).
• Systems Engineering: Experience designing and operating asynchronous, queue-driven, or event-driven systems, including patterns such as retries, cancellation, idempotency, concurrency, ordering, timeouts, and failure handling.
• Integrations: Experience working with durable persistence, service contracts, RESTful APIs, and integrations across multiple services or platform components.
• Cloud-Native Infrastructure: Experience with production systems including containers, Kubernetes or similar orchestration platforms, service health, scaling behavior, and operational debugging.
• Production Practices: Strong production engineering ownership, including testing, observability, structured logging, metrics, tracing, incident response, and continuous reliability improvement.
• Leadership Maturity: Ability to lead design discussions, communicate technical tradeoffs clearly, mentor other engineers, and drive cross-team work through ambiguity with an ownership-oriented mindset.

Nice to Have

• Experience with workflow engines, orchestration systems, job runners, task execution platforms, or runtime infrastructure.
• Experience with Kubernetes deployment patterns, GitOps, multi-cluster environments, cloud platform operations, or infrastructure automation.
• Experience with messaging systems, event contracts, schema management, asynchronous notification pipelines, or distributed service coordination.
• Experience with real-time communication, long-lived connections, service-to-service messaging, or coordination across unreliable networks.
• Experience with secure service-to-service authentication, token handling, secrets management, authorization boundaries, or customer-scoped execution contexts.
• Experience with log collection, log streaming, distributed workload observability, operational dashboards, or production support tooling.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Success Looks Like

• Within 30-60 days: You understand the cloud platform architecture, can trace work across key services, and are shipping focused improvements with clear tests and operational awareness.
• Within 90+ days: You are owning senior-level workstreams across service boundaries, improving reliability and debuggability, leading design decisions, and helping the team make platform behavior safer, clearer, and easier to operate.
• Over time: You become a go-to engineer for distributed execution and orchestration patterns across Alteryx Cloud, raising the bar for platform correctness, production maturity, and cross-team delivery.

Company Tone and Benefits

Why work for just any analytics company? At Alteryx, Inc., we are explorers, dreamers and innovators. We’re on a journey to build the best analytics platform in the world, but we can’t do it without people like you, leading the way. Embrace the unconventional, exercise your imagination and help alter the future with Alteryx.

Compensation

Alteryx is committed to fair, equitable, and transparent compensation. Final compensation will be determined by various factors such as your relevant work experience, education, certifications, skills, and geographic location. The salary range for this role in the United States is $119,000 - $153,000. Employees may also be eligible for a wide range of other benefits, such as a bonus or commission, medical, retirement, financial, wellness, time off, employee discounts, and others.

Interested? Learn more and apply today at alteryx.com/careers!

As part of our ongoing commitment to a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace, we’re invested in building teams with a wide variety of backgrounds, identities, and experiences.

Benefits & Perks

Alteryx has amazing benefits for all Associates which can be viewed here. For roles in San Francisco and Los Angeles: Alteryx will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. This position involves access to software/technology that is subject to U.S. export controls. Any job offer made will be contingent upon the applicant’s capacity to serve in compliance with U.S. export controls.