Software Engineer

Join Alteryx, a leading data analytics company, as a Software Engineer on our cloud platform engineering team. In this backend-heavy role, you will design, build, and operate backend services that coordinate work through Alteryx Cloud. You will work with modern cloud-native systems and technologies, and collaborate with various teams to ensure reliable and secure orchestration and job execution capabilities.

• Conception, construction, operation, and evolution of backend services that coordinate work within Alteryx Cloud.
• Development and improvement of systems for orchestrating work across services, including job submission, execution tracking, and operational visibility.
• Collaboration with partner teams to transform product requirements into incremental, testable, and operable platform capabilities.

• Experience building backend services, APIs, or background workers and writing modular, readable, and performant code independently, preferably using TypeScript and Node.js
• Experience owning feature-level work with moderate ambiguity, including basic design of small-to-medium systems or APIs and independent decisions within feature scope
• Clear communication, realistic estimation, and an ownership mindset. You can collaborate with partner teams, communicate progress and blockers, and follow work through implementation, testing, rollout, and production support
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• 2+ years of hands-on experience building and maintaining production software, or equivalent practical experience
• Understanding of asynchronous and distributed processing concepts such as task dependencies, state transitions, retries, cancellation, idempotency, concurrency, and timeouts
• Experience writing effective unit and integration tests and applying basic quality, reliability, and security practices
• Experience working with durable persistence, service integrations, and modern development and deployment practices, with the ability to investigate issues using logs, metrics, and existing operational tools
• 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
• Familiarity with task and workflow orchestration concepts, including task graphs, dependencies, pluggable task types, or flexible job specifications
• Exposure to job lifecycle concepts such as registering work, submitting jobs, handling cancellation and timeouts, and returning status or results
• Exposure to workloads that run across multiple environments, including deployment, scaling, or cross-service coordination concerns
• Familiarity with asynchronous processing concepts such as queues, retries, polling, or worker coordination
• Exposure to using logs, metrics, dashboards, or other operational tools to understand workload behavior and help troubleshoot issues