Staff/Principal Developer Platform Architect

Meet the Moment with Alteryx We're living through a once-in-a-generation shift in how work gets done. Data, automation, and AI are quickly becoming the center of every business decision - and Alteryx is leading the transformation. You'll be working on the challenges that sit at the heart of modern business. No matter your role, the work you do will help organizations move faster, see more clearly, and tackle questions that used to feel impossible. If you're ready to meet the moment with innovation, curiosity, and excellence, there's a place for you here.Meet the Moment with Alteryx We're living through a once-in-a-generation shift in how work gets done. Data, automation, and AI are quickly becoming the center of every business decision - and Alteryx is leading the transformation. You'll be working on the challenges that sit at the heart of modern business. No matter your role, the work you do will help organizations move faster, see more clearly, and tackle questions that used to feel impossible. If you're ready to meet the moment with innovation, curiosity, and excellence, there's a place for you here Job Title:Principal Developer Platform Architect Focus:Developer Productivity, from local dev to build & test pipelines to release readiness, with AI enablement at every stage. Role Summary: You are the architect of the "Developer Inner Loop." Your objective is to create a frictionless, world-class developer experience. By integrating CI/CD, testing infrastructure, and AI-powered tooling into a cohesive ecosystem, you will empower our product teams to ship with unprecedented speed, precision, and confidence. Core Competencies & Responsibilities:SDLC Strategy: Redesign the end-to-end software delivery lifecycle to minimize friction. Focus on creating seamless transitions from local development to production through standardized pipelines and ephemeral environment strategies.Shift-Left Quality & Governance: Drive the evolution of our testing paradigm. Architect a platform that enables product engineering teams to own component-level quality, supported by a robust, high-performance, and governed suite of automated e2e tests.AI-Enabled Engineering: Lead the integration of AI tools and frameworks into our development workflow. Identify opportunities to use GenAI and agentic workflows to automate routine engineering tasks, debugging, and quality checks.Platform Experience & Metrics: Define the "Trust Metrics" that track our success. Use developer productivity data and system health metrics to identify bottlenecks, guide technical debt remediation, and continuously improve the daily life of our engineers. Experience:Distinguished/Principal: 10+Lead/Senior/Staff: 5+ Nice-to-have technical skills:Microservices deployment on Kubernetes (AWS, GCP, Azure), with various strategies (canary, blue-green etc)Building efficient CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins) to automate testing and deployment.GitOps, ArgoCD, local dev and build tooling (such as Gradle/Bazel)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 base salary range for this role in the United States is $154,000-$212,000.In addition, you may be eligible for additional compensation. Employees may also be eligible for a wide range of other benefits, including medical, retirement, financial, wellness, time off, employee discounts, and others.Why Join Us?At Alteryx, you’ll be at the forefront of AI-driven analytics and cloud transformation, working with some of the world’s most data-driven organizations. If you're passionate about helping customers modernize their analytics stack and leverage AI at scale, we’d love to hear from you!System reliability, performance, scalability, maintainability improvements.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.Benefits & Perks:Alteryx has amazing benefits for all Associates which can be viewed here. For roles in San Francisco and Los Angeles: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Alteryx will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.This position involves access to software/technology that is subject to U.S. export controls. Any job offer made will be contingent upon the applicant’s capacity to serve in compliance with U.S. export controls.

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