Sr. Cloud Engineer

Alteryx • Irvine, CA

1d • $118,000 - $153,000 • Remote

About The Position

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. 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. Why work for just any analytics company? At Alteryx, Inc., we are explorers, dreamers and innovators. We’re on a journey to build the best analytics platform in the world, but we can’t do it without people like you, leading the way. Forget the stereotypical tech companies of the past. Embrace the unconventional, exercise your imagination and help alter the future with Alteryx. Overview: Join our team as a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer responsible for strategic efforts to implement cloud governance, optimize Landing Zone architecture, and introduce intelligent automation into our environments. In this role, you'll mentor others and lead initiatives focused on secure, scalable, and compliant infrastructure. Why work for just any analytics company? At Alteryx, Inc., we are explorers, dreamers and innovators. We’re on a journey to build the best analytics platform in the world, but we can’t do it without people like you, leading the way. Forget the stereotypical tech companies of the past. Embrace the unconventional, exercise your imagination and help alter the future with Alteryx. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help us build a next generation platform SDK and API suite. You will be a strong technical contributor whose passion is around creating amazing, high quality engineering outcomes. You are someone who loves knowing the intimate details of, and developing in, multiple languages, with a strong focus on design. You value inclusivity and want to join an empowering culture. You know that success hinges on commitment, that our differences make us stronger, and that the finish line is always best when the whole team crosses together. This is a remote-friendly position, where Alteryx has a business entity. 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. 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. Alteryx powers analytics for all by providing the leading Analytics Automation Platform. Alteryx delivers easy end-to-end automation of data engineering, analytics, reporting, machine learning, and data science processes, enabling enterprises every-where to democratize data analytics across their organizations for a broad range of use cases. More than 8,000 customers globally rely on Alteryx to deliver high-impact business outcomes.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering, preferably in large-scale environments.
• Expert-level proficiency with Terraform, Cloud CLI, scripting (Python/Bash), and CI/CD.
• Deep understanding of governance frameworks, control policies, and cloud compliance.
• Experience integrating AI tools or observability platforms into cloud operations.
• Proven experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, etc.).
• Strong mentoring, documentation, and technical leadership skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• 3+ years of Python and C++ design, development, and debugging experience preferably leveraging open source and open standards
• Experience with (REST) API and/or SDK development
• MS/BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Experience with object oriented and functional design patterns
• Experience using Git and Git-based pipelines or equivalent
• Experience mentoring and developing others
• Strong skills in critical thinking, decision making, problem solving, and attention to detail
• Growth focused and curious about new challenges and experiences

Nice To Haves

• Node.js
• Familiarity with cloud computing / managed services (GCP/Azure/AWS)
• Experience or familiarity with AI-driven development in a modern IDE
• Front end experience in React or a similar framework including Javascript and JSON
• Experience with optimizing protocols and building efficient RPC systems
• Networking & concurrency experience
• Knowledge and experience with distributed computing, big data and stream processing systems
• Container experience: Docker, Kubernetes
• Rust and/or Golang familiarity
• Experience with a data prep and blend and predictive analytics workflow platform such as Alteryx

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and enhancement of Cloud Landing Zones, incorporating best practices in governance and security.
• Review architecture and provide feedback on cloud infrastructure proposals.
• Implement policy-as-code and automation for account provisioning and compliance enforcement.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across Networking, InfoSec, DevOps, and FinOps to align goals.
• Champion infrastructure-as-code maturity and reusable modules.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and growth mindset, enthusiastic about learning modern technologies quickly and applying the gained knowledge to address business problems.
• Demonstrate collaborative, team-focused approach (succeeding and failing as a team).
• Support a 24x7 operations environment with the potential for travel and the ability to participate in an on-call rotation with some off-hours, weekends, and holidays as needed.
• Assist Product Management and SDK team in definition of work (stories, tasks)
• Take full ownership of work outcomes including design, development, and testing; support and contribute to DevOps pipeline
• Contribute to quality system (framework), with a strong commitment to leading with quality
• Participate in code reviews, ensuring our delivery of clean, well-tested, and performant software
• Help in the development of a great work environment by being a leader and mentor within the team and working collaboratively across teams

Benefits

• Alteryx has amazing benefits for all Associates which can be viewed here.
• Employees may also be eligible for a wide range of other benefits, such as a bonus or commission, medical, retirement, financial, wellness, time off, employee discounts, and others.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level