Director, Developer Platform Engineering

Alteryx is a company focused on data, automation, and AI that helps organizations improve business decision-making. The Director, Developer Platform Engineering will define and execute the strategy for platforms, tooling, and practices supporting software delivery across the organization, while leading developer experience, CI/CD, testing infrastructure, AI-enabled engineering, metrics, and team development.

Responsibilities:

• Platform Strategy — Define the long-term vision for Alteryx's Developer Platform; build a roadmap that standardizes the SDLC and scales across hundreds of engineers
• Developer Experience — Own the developer journey end-to-end, from local dev to production; reduce friction across builds, testing, and deployment; champion self-service capabilities
• CI/CD & Release Engineering — Modernize CI/CD platforms; standardize pipelines; drive GitOps and progressive delivery (canary, blue/green)
• Integration Testing — Establish testing strategy and scalable infrastructure for unit and integration testing
• AI-Enabled Engineering — Lead adoption of GenAI and agentic tooling for coding, testing, and docs; define responsible-use best practices
• Metrics & Operational Excellence — Define KPIs for developer productivity and platform health; build dashboards to guide investment
• Leadership — Recruit and grow a high-performing org; mentor managers and senior engineers; align stakeholders across Engineering

Requirements:

• • 10+ years in software engineering, with significant experience leading platform engineering or developer infrastructure teams
• • 5+ years leading managers in large technical organizations
• • Proven track record setting platform strategy for orgs with hundreds of engineers
• • Deep knowledge of CI/CD, DevOps, and developer experience practices
• • Experience leading large-scale engineering transformations
• • Strong executive communication and stakeholder influence
• • Kubernetes on AWS, Azure, or GCP
• • CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins) and GitOps (ArgoCD, Flux)
• • Build systems (Gradle, Bazel, Nx) and testing infrastructure across unit/integration/e2e/performance
• • Progressive deployment (canary, blue/green, feature flags) and IDPs/developer portals
• • DevEx metrics frameworks (DORA, SPACE) and observability platforms
• • AI-powered dev tools (GitHub Copilot, Anthropic, agentic workflows)