Principal Software Engineer, Alteryx
Distributed Systems
$215-300k
+ Bonus payouts are based on individual and company performance.
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Analytics & data science automation
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Analytics & data science automation
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$215-300k
+ Bonus payouts are based on individual and company performance.
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To put data and AI to work for the Intelligent Enterprise.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: ~10+ (or more) years of software engineering experience, with at least 3–5 years in senior architect or principal-level roles (or equivalent)
- Proven track record of designing and operating large-scale, distributed systems in a production environment
- Deep hands-on experience with orchestration, scheduler systems, job pipelines, or workflow engines
- Strong proficiency in one or more of: Java / JVM ecosystem, Python, Node.js, or equivalent high-level backend languages
- Experience with message/event systems (e.g. Kafka or similar), queueing, streaming architectures
- Familiarity with in-memory data stores and caching (e.g. Redis or equivalents)
- Strong knowledge of containerization, Kubernetes, sidecar patterns, service meshes, proxies, etc
- Understanding or experience in split-plane architectures (control plane / data plane separation) is highly desirable
- Strong skills in API design, data modeling, integration patterns, error handling, consistency
- Experience with observability (metrics, tracing, logging) and designing systems for operability and failure modes
- Ability to conduct performance analysis, capacity planning, scaling, fault tolerance strategies
- Excellent communication skills—able to articulate tradeoffs, convince stakeholders, write design docs, lead design reviews
- Ability to function autonomously, make decisions in ambiguity, drive consensus across teams, and adopt/evict technologies as needed
- Strong judgment about when to optimize vs. when to simplify
- Familiarity with high-scale cloud deployments (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP) and infrastructure-as-code is a plus
- Self-starter and independent: you’ll take ownership with minimal direction
- Ability to see the forest and the trees: high-level architectural vision + detailed component thinking
- Bias for action: you move forward, prototype, iterate, course-correct
- Collaborative: able to work across teams, mentor, negotiate constraints
- Pragmatic: balancing ideal architecture with business realities and timelines
- Strong problem-solving mindset and good intuition about tradeoffs under constraints
- 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
What the job involves
- We are looking for a highly autonomous, senior architect to drive, review, and own the software architecture for our core platform
- This person will be the technical conscience for large-scale, distributed systems, and will collaborate closely with engineering leads, product owners, and infrastructure teams
- You will design, evolve, and enforce architectural standards and patterns; lead cross-cutting initiatives; and mentor other engineers
- At this level, we expect you to operate with minimal handholding, you will influence and make tough technical decisions, resolve tradeoffs, and bring clarity to ambiguity
- Define, evolve, and own the architectural vision and roadmaps for the major platform domains (e.g. orchestration, job execution, data pipelines, sidecar services)
- Perform architecture reviews, assess proposals from teams, and vet designs for adherence to standards, scalability, performance, reliability, and security
- Lead or contribute hands-on to critical subsystems (e.g. orchestrator, scheduling, service mesh, job pipelines, stateful services)
- Drive and enforce cross-team architectural patterns
- Provide thought leadership: prototype proofs-of-concept, evaluate new tools/technologies, bring innovation into the platform
- Mentor and coach architects, senior engineers, and guide teams through architectural change
- Collaborate with infrastructure, operations, SRE, security, and DevOps to ensure the architecture is operable, observable, and maintainable in production
- Help define and lead architecture governance (e.g. architecture review board, reference architectures, standards, guidelines)
- Participate in tech strategy, roadmap planning with product & engineering leadership
- Diagnose and resolve technical debt or architectural “smells” across the codebase, enforcing consistency
- Metrics of Success/What You’ll Be Measured On:
- Quality, consistency, and maintainability of architectural decisions across the platform
- Reduction in architectural debt and increase in architectural coherence over time
- Adoption of patterns and standards across teams
- Ability to resolve cross-cutting issues and unblock teams in architecture matters
- Delivery of strategic cross-domain initiatives or major refactoring with low disruption
- Mentorship, influence, and raising the architecture maturity of engineering teams
- System reliability, performance, scalability, and maintainability improvements
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. And 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 HQ
Irvine Business Complex, Irvine, CA
Leadership
Dean Stoecker
(Executive Chairman)Dean began his 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, he co-founded Alteryx, serving as CEO from 2010, and has been Executive Chairman since 2020.
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