Sr. Developer Platform Engineer

Alteryx Inc.; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 136,000 - 177,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus or commission

Medical

Retirement

Financial

Wellness

Time off

Employee discounts

Others

Job summary

Alteryx, based in Irvine, is seeking a Senior Developer Platform Engineer focused on developer productivity—from local development to release pipelines—with AI enablement at every stage.

You will help build the "Developer Inner Loop" by enhancing platform capabilities, automating CI/CD workflows, and delivering tooling that accelerates product teams while upholding reliability and security standards.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in progressively complex software engineering roles.
• Proven experience implementing platform, infrastructure, or developer tooling solutions.

Responsibilities

• SDLC Execution & Enablement: Improve CI/CD pipelines and developer workflows.
• Shift-Left Quality & Governance: Enable automated testing aligned with quality goals.
• AI-Enabled Tooling: Integrate AI-based tooling into the developer experience.
• Platform Implementation & Operations: Build stable, usable developer platform components.

Skills

End-to-end delivery

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes

GitOps

ArgoCD

DevEx tooling

Scripting

Tools

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Gradle

Bazel

Job description

Meet the Moment with AlteryxWe'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.

Job Title: Senior Developer Platform Engineer Focus: Developer Productivity, from local dev to build & test pipelines to release readiness, with AI enablement at every stage.

Role Summary: You are contributing to building and enhancing the "Developer Inner Loop", by maintaining platform capabilities and implementing AI-powered tooling that improves developer productivity across local development, CI/CD, testing infrastructure, and release workflows. You will partner closely with architects and fellow teammates to translate architectural vision, with a primary focus on hands‑on implementation and operational excellence. You will empower our product teams to ship with unprecedented speed, precision, and confidence.

Core Competencies & Responsibilities:

• SDLC Execution & Enablement: Implement enhancements to the software delivery lifecycle that reduce friction for product engineering teams. Build and maintain standardized CI/CD pipelines and developer workflows based on defined architecture. Support the adoption of ephemeral environments and streamlined local development tooling. Drive automation across build, test, and deployment workflows.
• Shift-Left Quality & Governance: Implement and maintain automated testing frameworks and infrastructure aligned with shift-left quality goals. Enable teams to integrate component and end-to-end testing into their workflows. Contribute to reliability, performance, and scalability of testing systems. Provide tooling and infrastructure that enable teams to own quality.
• AI-Enabled Tooling: Integrate AI-based tools and workflows into the developer experience as defined by platform strategy. Identify and implement practical use cases for AI within established guidelines. Support automation of routine engineering tasks such as testing, debugging, and code quality checks
• Platform Implementation & Operations: Build and enhance core components of the developer platform with a focus on stability and usability. Contribute to identifying and resolving bottlenecks in developer workflows and platform performance. Support data collection for developer productivity and platform performance metrics. Develop scripts and lightweight tooling to automate platform capabilities and workflows. Support engineering teams in adopting platform tooling and workflows.

Experience:

• Senior: 5+ years in progressively complex software engineering roles
• Proven experience implementing platform, infrastructure, or developer tooling solutions

Nice-to-have technical skills:

• Experienced at end-to-end delivery of internal engineering systems - from discovery and tech approach definition to rollout and iteration.
• Expertise in scoping and delegating work to teammates.
• Microservices deployment on Kubernetes (AWS, GCP, Azure), with various strategies (canary, blue-green, etc.)
• Building and maintaining efficient CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins) to automate testing and deployment.
• GitOps, ArgoCD, local dev and build tooling (such as Gradle/Bazel)
• Experience supporting developer experience (DevEx) tooling
• Scripting and automation, specific for release and build management

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 $136,000 - $177,000. 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.

• bonus or commission
• medical
• retirement
• financial
• wellness
• time off
• employee discounts
• others

Benefits & Perks:

Alteryx has amazing benefits for all Associates which can be viewed here. For roles in San Francisco and Los Angeles: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Alteryx will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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.

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.