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.
Senior Software Engineering - Dataplane
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.
Alteryx is searching for a Senior Software Engineer. This position is remote-friendly.
Position Overview
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our high-performing Data Plane Platform team, building the foundation of Alteryx's next-generation cloud platform. This is a full-stack engineering role. The primary backend language is Go, with a focus on building scalable services, APIs, and distributed systems. You'll also contribute across the stack
using React and TypeScript to build customer-facing platform management experiences.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of professional software development experience.
- Strong experience building backend services using Go, REST APIs, and distributed systems.
- Experience developing and operating production cloud applications on AWS or GCP.
- Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript and React or a similar frontend framework.
- Familiarity with microservices, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native application design.
- Experience with testing, CI/CD pipelines, Git, and modern software development practices.
- Ability to troubleshoot issues across application code, cloud infrastructure, and production environments.
- Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills with an ownership mindset.
Nice to Have
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Terraform, or Infrastructure as Code.
- Experience with messaging technologies such as Kafka, Redis, or Pub/Sub.
- Experience building cloud provisioning, orchestration, or platform management systems.
- Familiarity with observability, monitoring, and distributed tracing tools.
- Experience with multi-tenant SaaS platforms, workflow orchestration, or cloud infrastructure.
- Experience contributing to system architecture, technical design, and engineering best practices
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 $118,000 - $154,000.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of professional software development experience.
- Strong experience building backend services using Go, REST APIs, and distributed systems.
- Experience developing and operating production cloud applications on AWS or GCP.
- Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript and React or a similar frontend framework.
- Familiarity with microservices, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native application design.
- Experience with testing, CI/CD pipelines, and Git.
- Ability to troubleshoot issues across application code, cloud infrastructure, and production environments.
- Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills with an ownership mindset.
Alteryx Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Alteryx and has not been reviewed or approved by Alteryx.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is frequently characterized as fair and competitive for the role, with total compensation (including stock/equity and benefits) described as a point of strong satisfaction. Competitive salaries and commissions are positioned as a tool to attract and retain talent.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision coverage is described as comprehensive, including employer-paid coverage for employees alongside life and disability insurance, FSAs, and mental health support. Wellness programming and related supports (such as fitness reimbursements and organized workouts) reinforce the perceived strength of health-related offerings.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Perks and lifestyle supports are described as broad, spanning items like health club reimbursement, home-office stipends for remote work, commuter support, and office amenities such as meals and snacks. Flexibility-oriented benefits are also present through hybrid/virtual eligibility and volunteer time.
Alteryx Insights
What We Do
Alteryx is a leader in Analytic Process Automation (APA). The Alteryx APA platform unifies analytics, data science and business process automation in one easy-to-use platform to accelerate digital transformation. Every data worker, regardless of technical acumen, is empowered to be curious and solve problems.
Why Work With Us
Alteryx’s mission is to deliver breakthroughs. We promise customers our technology will help them deliver breakthrough outcomes. We make a similar commitment to employees: Working at Alteryx will be your breakthrough. Whether you are looking to make a change in your career or your life, Alteryx is a place where you will make it happen.
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