Software Engineer, Backend Developer, Cloud Engineer - Software

• Alteryx is looking for a Software Engineer to join our cloud platform engineering team, with a focus on orchestration, job execution, workflow runtime services, and shared control-plane/data-plane capabilities
• In this role, you will help design, build, operate, and evolve backend services that coordinate how work moves through Alteryx Cloud
• You will work on platform capabilities related to orchestration, job execution, workflow runtime services, and reliable service-to-service coordination
• The role is backend-heavy and involves building APIs, services, workers, libraries, and runtime infrastructure
• You will work with modern cloud-native systems and technologies such as Type Script/Node.js, relational databases, messaging or queueing systems, event-driven architecture, containers, Kubernetes, and observability tooling
• This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who writes modular, readable, and performant code, understands trade-offs in time, complexity, and maintainability, and leverages AI to improve productivity
• You should be comfortable learning existing systems, designing small features, writing clear tests, and debugging behavior across services with guidance from experienced engineers
• You will partner with platform, product, security, quality, and application teams to make orchestration and job execution capabilities reliable, understandable, and secure
• Design and deliver backend services, APIs, workers, and shared libraries that power cloud platform capabilities
• Build and improve systems for orchestrating work across services, including job submission, execution tracking, status propagation, retries, cancellation, results, and operational visibility
• Develop reliable asynchronous and event-driven systems using queues, messaging, background workers, and durable state
• Work on distributed execution flows across platform services, including service-to-service communication, routing, acknowledgements, and failure recovery
• Build and maintain cloud-native runtime infrastructure using containers, Kubernetes, deployment automation, and related platform tooling
• Integrate platform services with persistence layers, event streams, REST APIs, and internal service contracts
• Improve production reliability through metrics, tracing, structured logging, health checks, dashboards, alerting, runbooks, and incident follow-up
• Participate constructively in code reviews, identify common bugs and style issues, and apply feedback to improve the quality of your work
• Collaborate with partner teams to turn product requirements into incremental, testable, and operable platform capabilities
• Use AI and modern development tools to improve engineering productivity, code quality, and delivery speed
• Success Looks Like:
• Within 30-60 days, you understand the core orchestration and job execution architecture, can trace a job or task across the services you support, and are shipping focused improvements with clear tests and operational awareness
• Within 90+ days, you are independently delivering feature-level work, contributing realistic estimates and design input, improving reliability and debuggability, and becoming a dependable contributor to the team’s orchestration and job execution work
• Over time, you own features and services in production, help onboard and mentor newer engineers, and become a trusted team-level contributor for job execution and orchestration patterns across Alteryx Cloud

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

• Experience building backend services, APIs, or background workers and writing…