Principal Infrastructure Engineer, Alteryx
$183-212k
Office located in Irvine, CA
Analytics & data science automation
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Analytics & data science automation
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$183-212k
Office located in Irvine, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower companies and organizations to fix complex societal and business problems.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- ~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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
- 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
Our take
Alteryx brings a suite of tools to automate data driven processes on a large scale, massively speeding up data based procedures. The system also uses AI to analyse data and provide insights to enable rapid decision making.
What Alteryx does differently from other data science tool developers is focus on the accessibility of its software, taking a low code / no code approach. This allows for greater collaboration between people with differing skill sets, speeding up processes for its users.
The business has made some strategic partnerships over time, most notably with Snowflake and Blue Prism. With AI becoming more, Alteryx is projected to make major inroads in its market as more companies turn to automated solutions for data analysis.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
51% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Oct 2015
$85m
SERIES C
Oct 2014
$60m
SERIES B
Total funding: $217m
Company benefits
- Medical, Dental & Vision
- Health Savings Account
- Flexible Spending Account
- Fertility Benefits
- Paid Parental Leave
- Global Employee Support
- Short-Term & Long-Term Disability (plus Life & AD&D)
- Supplemental Employee Life (plus Spouse Life & Child Life)
- 401(K) with Matching
- Dependent Care & Commuter FSAs
- Pet Discount Program
- Tuition Assistance
- Business Travel Insurance
- Wellness Allowance
Company HQ
Quail Hill, Irvine, CA
Leadership
Dean Stoecker
(Executive Chairman)Started their career as a Sales Manager at D&B and Strategic Mapping for 6 years, before working as CEO of SRC for 13 years. In 1997, they co-founded Alteryx, serving as CEO from 2010, and has been Executive Chairman since 2020.
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