Senior Software Engineer - Orchestration & Job Execution

Alteryx is a leader in data analytics and automation, seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their cloud platform engineering team. The role involves designing and building backend services for orchestration and job execution, ensuring reliable and efficient cloud platform capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Design and deliver backend services, APIs, workers, and shared libraries that power cloud platform capabilities
• Build and improve systems for orchestrating work across services, including job submission, execution tracking, status propagation, retries, cancellation, results, and operational visibility
• Develop reliable asynchronous and event-driven systems using queues, messaging, background workers, and durable state
• Work on distributed execution flows across platform services, including service-to-service communication, routing, acknowledgements, and failure recovery
• Build and maintain cloud-native runtime infrastructure using containers, Kubernetes, deployment automation, and related platform tooling
• Integrate platform services with persistence layers, event streams, REST APIs, and internal service contracts
• Improve production reliability through metrics, tracing, structured logging, health checks, dashboards, alerting, runbooks, and incident follow-up
• Lead technical design for ambiguous or cross-service work, review code with a systems mindset, and mentor engineers on distributed-system and production-engineering practices
• Collaborate with partner teams to turn product requirements into incremental, testable, and operable platform capabilities
• Use AI and modern development tools to improve engineering productivity, code quality, and delivery speed

Requirements:

• 5+ years preferred (4+ years minimum) of professional software development experience, with meaningful ownership of production backend services, cloud platform capabilities, or distributed systems
• Strong experience building backend services using TypeScript/Node.js, or core systems languages like Go, Java, or Rust (with a willingness to code primarily in Node.js)
• Experience designing and operating asynchronous, queue-driven, or event-driven systems, including patterns such as retries, cancellation, idempotency, concurrency, ordering, timeouts, and failure handling
• Experience working with durable persistence, service contracts, RESTful APIs, and integrations across multiple services or platform components
• Experience with production systems including containers, Kubernetes or similar orchestration platforms, service health, scaling behavior, and operational debugging
• Strong production engineering ownership, including testing, observability, structured logging, metrics, tracing, incident response, and continuous reliability improvement
• Ability to lead design discussions, communicate technical tradeoffs clearly, mentor other engineers, and drive cross-team work through ambiguity with an ownership-oriented mindset
• 3+ years of Python and C++ design, development, and debugging experience preferably leveraging open source and open standards
• Design, implement, and maintain embedded Python runtime integration in a predominantly C++ engine/host environment
• Own and evolve the Alteryx Python Tool including C++ plugin engines and process lifecycle (server startup, persistence, shutdown)
• Develop and troubleshoot SDK engine plugin components (e.g., gRPC-based engine plugins, streaming pipelines) in C++ with Python-facing APIs
• Debug complex native/runtime issues involving DLL/.pyd conflicts, OpenSSL and other native libraries across multiple Python versions
• Lead modernization work around virtualenv/venv management and installer/packaging plumbing, including WiX (installer) and native DLL exports
• Maintain and extend native/compiled Python extensions, ensuring compatibility with modern NumPy/CPython ABIs
• Collaborate with security and platform teams to remediate native library vulnerabilities (e.g., c-ares, libxml2, SQLite, OpenSSL) and keep the SBOM healthy
• Improve and support developer SDKs (v1/v2), including debugging C++/Python streaming and serialization issues for 1P and 3P tool authors
• Drive reliability and performance improvements in engine ↔ Python bridges, focusing on deadlocks, crashes, and high-throughput streaming scenarios
• Contribute to and maintain CI/CD pipelines and code-quality tooling (e.g., C++ docs jobs, coverage, static analysis) affecting C++/Python hybrid repos
• Author and maintain architecture and operational runbooks for C++/Python integration points, including upgrade playbooks for new Python/OpenSSL versions
• Mentor other engineers in best practices for native–Python interop, debugging cross-language issues, and designing robust extension points
• 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
• 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