Director, Infrastructure & Site Reliability Engineering

Alteryx is a leading company in data, automation, and AI, transforming how business decisions are made. They are seeking a Director of Infrastructure & Site Reliability Engineering to lead multiple engineering teams and define the technical vision for their cloud services, ensuring reliability, security, and scalability.

Responsibilities:

• Define and execute the strategy for Alteryx’s centralized Infrastructure, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Observability, and Performance Engineering organizations
• Lead the design, operation, and continuous evolution of cloud infrastructure across AWS and GCP, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency
• Drive Infrastructure-as-Code adoption and governance through Terraform, establishing consistent platform standards, automation, and operational best practices
• Own the company’s observability strategy by building and operating enterprise-grade telemetry platforms using Datadog and related technologies, enabling actionable insights into system health, performance, and customer experience
• Partner with Security, Compliance, and Engineering teams to meet regulatory and customer requirements, including HIPAA, FedRAMP, SOC 2, and other compliance frameworks
• Establish and continuously improve incident management practices, including operational readiness, on-call excellence, postmortem culture, root cause analysis, and measurable reliability improvements
• Develop proactive reliability programs including capacity planning, resiliency testing, disaster recovery, performance benchmarking, and operational risk management
• Define reliability engineering frameworks that enable product teams to own service health through Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), error budgets, performance objectives, and operational accountability
• Lead the evolution of centralized platform capabilities that simplify how engineering teams build, deploy, monitor, and operate services at scale
• Partner with engineering leadership to improve developer productivity through platform automation, self-service infrastructure, deployment tooling, and operational best practices
• Build, mentor, and develop high-performing engineering managers and technical leaders while fostering a culture of operational excellence, customer focus, accountability, continuous learning, and innovation

Requirements:

• 10+ years of software engineering, infrastructure, or platform engineering experience, with 5+ years leading multiple engineering teams or managers
• Proven experience leading Infrastructure, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Operations organizations supporting large-scale SaaS products
• Deep expertise operating production environments on AWS and/or GCP
• Strong experience with Infrastructure-as-Code technologies such as Terraform
• Experience building and operating modern observability platforms using Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar technologies
• Demonstrated success implementing SRE practices including SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, incident management, operational reviews, and reliability engineering programs
• Experience supporting regulated environments and working with compliance frameworks such as HIPAA, FedRAMP, SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud networking, Kubernetes, container orchestration, CI/CD pipelines, and production operations
• Proven ability to influence technical strategy and drive alignment across engineering, security, product, and executive stakeholders
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical strategy into business outcomes
• Passion for building high-performing teams and developing engineering leaders
• Experience leading platform transformations for enterprise SaaS organizations
• Familiarity with software performance engineering, load testing, and large-scale distributed systems optimization
• Experience supporting data-intensive cloud services