Principal Infrastructure Engineer

We’re looking for problem solvers, innovators, and dreamers who are searching for anything but business as usual. Like us, you’re a high performer who’s an expert at your craft, constantly challenging the status quo. You value inclusivity and want to join a culture that empowers you to show up as your authentic self. You know that success hinges on commitment, that our differences make us stronger, and that the finish line is always sweeter when the whole team crosses together.

Role Overview
We’re seeking a highly skilled, customer-oriented Principal Infrastructure Engineer to design, evangelize, and lead the evolution of our infrastructure and platform foundation. This person will partner with customers, product, and engineering teams to translate real needs into scalable, maintainable infrastructure systems. You’ll work at the intersection of infrastructure, devops, platform, and user needs, ensuring the platform is resilient, performant, and flexible enough to meet diverse customers’ requirements.
You will be expected to operate with significant autonomy: drive architecture and design choices, lead infrastructure initiatives, and represent our platform to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Engage directly with customers to understand use-cases, pain points, and requirements; shape the infrastructure roadmap accordingly.
• Translate customer/feature requirements into robust infrastructure and platform designs.
• Architect, build, and maintain the underlying platform foundations: our Kubernetes platform, GitOps pipelines (Argo CD or equivalent), infrastructure-as-code models (Terraform, etc.), networking, security, and operational tooling.
• Define and enforce infrastructure patterns, best practices, guardrails, and standards across teams.
• Operate or partner in building shared platform services (e.g. auth, ingress, networking, service mesh, CI/CD gating, observability, logging, secrets, etc.).
• Lead or contribute hands-on to core infra subsystems, including provisioning, deployment pipelines, cluster lifecycle, multi-tenant isolation, infrastructure automation, and scalability tooling.
• Build or guide “platform layers” that allow application teams to operate autonomously while still within safe, well-architected constraints (self-service abstractions).
• Ensure infrastructure is observable, secure, resilient, fault-tolerant, and easily operable in production.
• Lead incident management or postmortems when infrastructure failures or customer-impacting events occur.
• Mentor and coach infrastructure engineers, platform engineers, or DevOps engineers across teams.
• Be the architectural champion for infrastructure initiatives: lead design reviews, evaluate new tools and technologies, and drive adoption or deprecation decisions.
• Coordinate with security, compliance, SRE, operations, and product teams to align policies, monitoring, SLAs, capacity planning, and reliability goals.
• Represent infrastructure/Platform in customer meetings, demos, architecture reviews, and roadmap planning.

• ~10+ years of experience in systems, infrastructure, or platform engineering (or equivalent), with a track record of tackling large-scale, production systems.
• Deep experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and cluster operations.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools, especially Terraform (or similar).
• Familiarity or experience with GitOps / declarative deployment tools (e.g. Argo CD, Flux, etc.).
• Experience designing or operating multi-tenant, shared platform environments.
• Strong understanding of networking, cluster networking, ingress, load balancing, proxies, service mesh, etc.
• Knowledge of security (identity, access control, secrets management, network segmentation) as part of infrastructure.
• Experience building or maintaining platform abstractions / self-service layers / APIs for infra consumption.
• Proficiency with observability tooling (metrics, tracing, logging), incident management, alerting.
• Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure) and hybrid or multi-cloud deployments.
• Strong automation ethos: scripting, tooling, CI/CD, operations automation.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills: ability to run customer meetings, present architectural rationale, negotiate tradeoffs.
• Strong ability to make decisions under ambiguity, balance short-term and long-term tradeoffs, and lead cross-team alignment.
• Ability to mentor and grow infrastructure/platform engineers, set standards, and uplift maturity.

• Customer empathy and ability to bridge technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong sense of ownership and initiative.
• Pragmatic and results-driven: you know when to build vs reuse vs simplify.
• Collaborative: able to work across product, security, SRE, DevOps, support teams.
• Mentorship mindset: raising the bar for infrastructure engineering across the organization.
• Resilience in the face of failure, strong troubleshooting instincts, calm under pressure.

Success Metrics / How You’ll Be Evaluated

• Platform reliability, uptime, performance, and scalability improvements.
• Customer (internal/external) satisfaction with infrastructure / onboarding / platform experience.
• Reduction in toil, manual work, and friction for engineering teams.
• Adoption of infra standards, patterns, and self-service abstractions across teams.
• Efficiency and velocity gains enabled by platform improvements (e.g. faster deployments).
• Architectural coherence, fewer infrastructure “quirks” or ad-hoc setups.
• Quality of mentorship, influence, and team growth of infrastructure/platform engineers.

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 base salary range for this role in the United States is $183,000-$212,000.

In addition, you may be eligible for additional compensation. Employees may also be eligible for a wide range of other benefits, including medical, retirement, financial, wellness, time off, employee discounts, and others.

Why Join Us?

At Alteryx, you’ll be at the forefront of AI-driven analytics and cloud transformation, working with some of the world’s most data-driven organizations. If you're passionate about helping customers modernize their analytics stack and leverage AI at scale, we’d love to hear from you!

Find yourself checking a lot of these boxes but doubting whether you should apply? At Alteryx, we support a growth mindset for our associates through all stages of their careers. If you meet some of the requirements and you share our values, we encourage you to apply. 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.

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.