Alteryx

Staff Developer Platform Engineer

Alteryx
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7 days ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$183k - $200k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Evolve GitLab at scale within GCP/GKE, including governance, permissions, runners, and pipeline infrastructure.
  • Design and implement pipeline orchestration and progressive-delivery systems using Argo Rollouts and Kargo, including automatic promotion and rollback patterns.
  • Partner with connector teams on build, release, and deployment pipelines for ODBC and similar third-party connectors.
  • Develop deployment, release-safety, rollback, recovery, and database change-management practices for distributed cloud systems.
  • Contribute to developer insights, FinOps tooling, AI SDLC systems, internal developer platforms, agentic code review systems, and ephemeral development environments.
  • Build and promote self-service tooling that improves safe deployment and recovery adoption.
  • Coach and mentor engineers on deployment safety, pipeline design, and infrastructure best practices.
  • Collaborate with Staff Engineers and architects to define technical direction, close platform coverage gaps, and execute technical plans.
  • Drive roadmapping, stakeholder alignment, and organization-wide adoption of developer-platform tooling and practices.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer, or SRE with demonstrated Staff-level scope and impact.
  • Deep hands-on experience administering GitLab or a comparable source-control and CI platform at scale, preferably in a self-hosted environment.
  • Experience designing and operating CI/CD pipeline and orchestration systems, including progressive-delivery tooling such as Argo Rollouts or Kargo.
  • Strong experience managing safe deployment, rollback, recovery, and database change-management processes for large distributed cloud systems.
  • Strong understanding of Kubernetes, containerization, and cloud infrastructure, with GCP preferred and AWS experience also relevant.
  • Experience coaching and mentoring engineers and driving adoption of new tooling and practices across teams.
  • Excellent cross-team collaboration and communication skills, including partnership with architects and peer Staff Engineers across a broad platform scope.
  • Willingness to occasionally participate in meetings with US-based and EMEA-based teams outside standard local hours.
  • Preferred experience includes AI-assisted platform tooling, test infrastructure, testing at scale, observability or tracing, ODBC or similar connector ecosystems, FinOps, developer productivity metrics, developer tooling, software architecture, asynchronous systems, and product-management-adjacent roadmapping and adoption work.

Benefits

  • Remote-friendly USA position.
  • Employees may be eligible for medical, retirement, financial, wellness, time-off, employee-discount, and other benefits.
  • Occasional meetings outside standard local hours may be required because the team is distributed across the US and EMEA.
  • Employment offers are contingent on the applicant’s ability to comply with U.S. export controls.
Alteryx

About Alteryx

1,001-5,000 employees

Alteryx builds an analytics automation platform used by analysts, data engineers, and data scientists to prepare, blend, and analyze data with code-optional tools. Its products, including Alteryx Designer plus cloud and server offerings, are sold primarily via subscriptions for on-premises and SaaS deployments across enterprises. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Irvine, California, Alteryx is privately held under Clearlake Capital.

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