Software Engineer - Cloud Platform & Data Plane Transport

Alteryx Inc.; Irvine (CA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

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

You will build and operate backend services and APIs in Go that securely connect Alteryx Cloud with data planes and customer environments. This hands-on role emphasizes reliability, security, and scalability, with opportunities to contribute to frontend work using TypeScript and React, participate in design reviews, and own features from development through production, including

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience building backend services and REST APIs using Go.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including debugging, automated testing, and writing clean, maintainable code.
• Familiarity with distributed systems, microservices, and service-to-service communication.
• Understanding of networking fundamentals, including HTTP/TLS, TCP/IP, DNS, and client-server communication.
• Experience developing or deploying applications in cloud environments such as AWS, GCP, or similar platforms.
• Experience with Git, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and modern software development practices.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs in Go.
• Build and improve secure connectivity solutions involving service registration, orchestration, routing, and proxy/relay-based communication.
• Own features from implementation, testing, deployment to production support.
• Develop and maintain cloud-native services running in AWS and GCP with emphasis on reliability, security, and scalability.
• Contribute to frontend applications and platform management experiences using TypeScript and React when needed.
• Investigate and troubleshoot issues across application code, cloud infrastructure, and networking components.
• Improve automated testing, monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational tooling; participate in reviews with cross-functional teams.
• Participate in an on-call rotation after onboarding, helping maintain production reliability.

Skills

Go

REST APIs

Distributed systems

Cloud (AWS/GCP)

Git/CI/CD

Debugging

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Datadog

Kafka

Job description

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.

Meet the Moment with Alteryx

At Alteryx, we're building technology that helps organizations connect to, manage, and work with their data securely and efficiently. As data, automation, and AI continue to evolve, our cloud platform plays an important role in helping customers solve complex problems and make better decisions.

We're looking for engineers who enjoy meaningful technical challenges, value collaboration, and want to build technology that makes a real difference.

Position Overview

We're looking for a Software Engineer to join our Data Plane Transport team within Cloud Platform Engineering. Our team builds and operates foundational services that enable secure, reliable communication between Alteryx Cloud, data planes, and customer environments. Our work includes Data Bridge, which enables customers to securely access private data sources, along with shared platform services for connectivity, networking, registration, and

orchestration across distributed cloud environments.

This is a hands-on, backend-focused engineering role, primarily developing services and APIs in Go, with some opportunities to contribute to frontend applications using TypeScript and React.

You'll collaborate with experienced engineers, contribute to technical decisions, and take ownership of features and improvements from development through production.

This is a remote-friendly role.

Key Responsibiliti es

• Design, develop, test, and maintain backend services, APIs, and distributed systems, primarily using Go.
• Build and improve secure connectivity solutions involving service registration, orchestration, routing, and proxy/relay-based communication.
• Own well-defined features and enhancements through implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Develop and maintain cloud-native services running in AWS and GCP, with a focus on reliability, security, and scalability.
• Contribute to frontend applications and platform management experiences using TypeScript and React when needed.
• Investigate and troubleshoot issues across application code, cloud infrastructure, and networking components.
• Improve automated testing, monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational tooling. Participate in technical discussions, design reviews, and code reviews while collaborating with Product, Infrastructure, Security, and other engineering teams.
• Participate in an on-call rotation after onboarding, helping maintain production reliability and address recurring issues.

Required Qualification s

• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Experience building backend services and REST APIs using Go or a comparable backend language, with the ability to become productive in Go.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including debugging, automated testing, and writing clean, maintainable code.
• Familiarity with distributed systems, microservices, and service-to-service communication.
• Understanding of networking fundamentals, including HTTP/TLS, TCP/IP, DNS, and client-server communication.
• Experience developing or deploying applications in cloud environments such as AWS, GCP, or similar platforms.
• Experience with Git, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and modern software development practices.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills, with the ability to independently deliver scoped work while collaborating with a team.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with TypeScript, React, or similar frontend technologies.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform or other cloud-native tooling.
• Familiarity with cloud networking, private connectivity, proxies, gateways or secure tunneling.
• Exposure to event-driven architectures and messaging technologies such as Kafka, Redis or Pub/Sub.
• Familiarity with observability tools such as Datadog metrics, logging, and distributed tracing.
• Understanding of security concepts such as authentication and signatures? Understanding of sensitive information? 100 Dialogue

Alteryx is committed to fair, equitable, and transparent compensation. Final compensation is determined by several factors, including but not limited to relevant work experience, education, certifications, skills, and geograph

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