Senior Software Engineer - Orchestration & Execution

You’ll build and operate backend services that coordinate workflow orchestration and job execution across Alteryx Cloud. The role owns distributed systems and production reliability work, with collaboration across platform, product, security, quality, and application teams.
* Permanent* Fully Remote
* 4+ years
* Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent practical experience### Skills and expertise

Type Script Node .jsKubernetes

Event-driven architecture

Messaging and queueing systems

Relational databases REST APIsObservability tooling### Key responsibilities
* Build backend services, APIs, workers, and libraries for cloud platform capabilities.
* Improve job orchestration, asynchronous execution, retries, cancellation, and failure recovery.
* Strengthen production reliability with observability, incident follow-up, and operational practices.## How this job compares

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Medium. The role uses AI tools and works with AI systems as a regular part of the job. The role is primarily backend platform engineering, but explicitly calls for using AI and modern development tools to improve productivity and code quality. AI is not the core product being built.## Full description

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 Engineer - Orchestration & Job Execution (Cloud Platform)
Alteryx is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our cloud platform engineering team. 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. This is a senior engineering role for someone comfortable owning complex production systems end to end.

You should be able to reason about distributed systems, asynchronous processing, reliability, observability, failure modes, and operational tradeoffs. You will partner with platform, product, security, QE, and application teams to make cloud platform capabilities reliable, understandable, and safe to operate  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.

What You’ll Do
• 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,…