[Hiring] Staff Developer Platform Engineer @Alteryx

Role Description

Alteryx is searching for a Staff Developer Platform Engineer to help drive infrastructure, pipeline, and deployment excellence across our engineering organizations. This position will be based in the USA, working closely with Developer Platform & Enablement to build the systems and safeguards that let product teams ship quickly and safely.

As a Staff Developer Platform Engineer , you will own infrastructure, pipeline, and release-safety work spanning several areas of Developer Platform & Enablement:

• Developer Experience — GitLab operations, build/release operations, AI SDLC systems, and developer tooling.
• DevOps / Foundlings — pipeline orchestration and progressive delivery built on Argo Rollouts and Kargo.
• Loaders & Strikers — DevOps support for our third-party connectors team (ODBC and similar connectors).
• FinSights — developer insights and FinOps.

You'll also help drive improvements to quality-of-life toolsets and work as a peer to our existing Staff Engineers, closing coverage gaps in infrastructure and cloud platform work.

Primary Responsibilities

• Evolve GitLab at scale within GCP/GKE, including governance, permissions, runners, and pipeline infrastructure.
• Design and implement pipeline orchestration and progressive-delivery systems built on Argo Rollouts and Kargo.
• Partner with our Connectors teams on DevOps for third-party connectors, including their build, release, and deployment pipelines.
• Contribute to FinSights: developer insights and FinOps tooling and practices.
• Design and oversee buildout of deployment and release-safety practices for large, distributed cloud systems.
• Partner with engineering teams on safe database change management and recovery processes for production systems.
• Drive adoption and continuous improvement of quality-of-life toolsets, alongside AI SDLC systems and other developer tooling.
• Build and evangelize self-service tooling that makes safe deployment and recovery practices easy for teams to adopt.
• Coach and mentor engineers across teams on deployment safety, pipeline design, and infrastructure best practices.
• Collaborate closely with peer Staff Engineers to identify and close coverage gaps across the Developer Platform.
• Translate architects' longer-range direction on pipeline systems and orchestration into concrete technical plans and hands-on execution.
• Bring product-management-adjacent thinking to drive org-wide uptake of new platform tooling and practices.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, DevOps/Platform Engineer, or SRE, with demonstrated Staff-level scope and impact.
• Deep, hands-on experience administering GitLab (or a comparable SCM/CI platform) at scale.
• Proven experience designing and operating CI/CD pipeline and orchestration systems.
• Strong track record managing safe deployment, rollback, and recovery processes for large, distributed cloud systems.
• Solid understanding of Kubernetes, containerization, and cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred).
• Experience coaching and mentoring engineers, and driving adoption of new tooling and practices across teams.
• Excellent cross-team collaboration and communication skills.
• Willingness to occasionally participate in meetings with US-based and EMEA-based teams outside of standard local hours.

Valued Skills

• Experience with AI-assisted tooling and automation in a platform engineering context.
• Familiarity with test infrastructure, testing at scale, or observability/tracing.
• Exposure to third-party database connector ecosystems.
• Familiarity with FinOps practices and developer productivity insights/metrics.
• Hands-on familiarity with quality-of-life developer tooling.
• Background in software architecture or async systems.
• Product-management-adjacent experience.

Compensation

Alteryx is committed to fair, equitable, and transparent compensation. Final compensation will be determined by various factors such as your relevant work experience, education, certifications, skills, and geographic location.

The salary range for this role in the United States is $183,125 - $200,450. In addition, you may be eligible for additional compensation, such as a bonus and a wide range of other benefits.

Benefits

• Medical, retirement, financial, wellness, time off, employee discounts, and others.

Company Description

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.

As part of our ongoing commitment to a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace, we’re invested in building teams with a wide variety of backgrounds, identities, and experiences.