Senior Software Engineer - Orchestration & Job Execution

Alteryx is a leading company in data analytics, automation, and AI, 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 reliability and scalability in cloud-native systems.

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
• Experience with workflow engines, orchestration systems, job runners, task execution platforms, or runtime infrastructure
• Experience with Kubernetes deployment patterns, GitOps, multi-cluster environments, cloud platform operations, or infrastructure automation
• Experience with messaging systems, event contracts, schema management, asynchronous notification pipelines, or distributed service coordination
• Experience with real-time communication, long-lived connections, service-to-service messaging, or coordination across unreliable networks
• Experience with secure service-to-service authentication, token handling, secrets management, authorization boundaries, or customer-scoped execution contexts
• Experience with log collection, log streaming, distributed workload observability, operational dashboards, or production support tooling
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• 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