Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

This role owns reliability outcomes for a modern split‑plane, multi‑region SaaS platform serving enterprise customers. Focuses on system design, reliability strategy, and cross‑team execution. Direct impact on SLO attainment, MTTR reduction, cost efficiency, and overall service health.

• Define and drive reliability strategy across control‑plane and data‑plane systems, including multi‑region resilience, BCDR, and failover design.
• Establish and operationalize SLOs, SLAs, and error budgets, ensuring they inform planning and engineering tradeoffs.
• Lead initiatives that measurably improve MTTR, incident prevention, and overall service health.
• Own incident management end‑to‑end, driving systemic fixes and long‑term reliability improvements beyond immediate response.
• Lead architecture and design reviews to ensure systems meet scalability, reliability, and cost‑efficiency goals.
• Champion automation and modernization, including AI‑driven reliability improvements.
• Establish and enforce code quality and review standards.
• Lead cross‑functional initiatives and align engineering with product priorities.
• Mentor senior engineers and act as a technical leader across teams.

• 6+ years leading delivery of complex, distributed systems or SaaS platforms.
• Strong experience with multi‑region, split‑plane architectures (control‑plane / data‑plane).
• Proven track record improving SLOs, MTTR, and system reliability at scale.
• Proficiency in languages such as Python, Java, C++ or JavaScript.
• Deep experience with Kubernetes (multi‑cluster), CI/CD, and Git Ops (ArgoCD); SLO/SLA design; observability; incident management; infrastructure as code and cloud platforms; disaster recovery, resilience, and security best practices.
• Strong leadership skills with experience mentoring senior engineers and influencing cross‑team decisions.

• Experience with chaos engineering and large‑scale reliability automation.
• Background in enterprise SaaS platforms or split‑plane architectures.
• Expertise in navigating, understanding, and leveraging modern observability platforms (Datadog, Grafana, etc.).

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, including bonuses, commissions, medical, retirement, financial, wellness, time off, employee discounts, and more.

Alteryx offers a comprehensive benefits package, viewable on the company site. The role follows relevant fair‑chance ordinances and will comply with U.S. export controls.

Alteryx, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.