Sr. Developer Platform Engineer

Alteryx is a company leading the transformation in data, automation, and AI. The Senior Developer Platform Engineer will enhance the developer experience by improving platform capabilities and implementing AI-powered tools to boost developer productivity.

Responsibilities:

• Implement enhancements to the software delivery lifecycle that reduce friction for product engineering teams
• Build and maintain standardized CI/CD pipelines and developer workflows based on defined architecture
• Support the adoption of ephemeral environments and streamlined local development tooling
• Drive automation across build, test, and deployment workflows
• Implement and maintain automated testing frameworks and infrastructure aligned with shift-left quality goals
• Enable teams to integrate component and end-to-end testing into their workflows
• Contribute to reliability, performance, and scalability of testing systems
• Provide tooling and infrastructure that enable teams to own quality
• Integrate AI-based tools and workflows into the developer experience as defined by platform strategy
• Identify and implement practical use cases for AI within established guidelines
• Support automation of routine engineering tasks such as testing, debugging, and code quality checks
• Build and enhance core components of the developer platform with a focus on stability and usability
• Contribute to identifying and resolving bottlenecks in developer workflows and platform performance
• Support data collection for developer productivity and platform performance metrics
• Develop scripts and lightweight tooling to automate platform capabilities and workflows
• Support engineering teams in adopting platform tooling and workflows

Requirements:

• 5+ years in progressively complex software engineering roles
• Proven experience implementing platform, infrastructure, or developer tooling solutions
• Experienced at end-to-end delivery of internal engineering systems - from discovery and tech approach definition to rollout and iteration
• Expertise in scoping and delegating work to teammates
• Microservices deployment on Kubernetes (AWS, GCP, Azure), with various strategies (canary, blue-green, etc.)
• Building and maintaining 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)
• Experience supporting developer experience (DevEx) tooling
• Scripting and automation, specific for release and build management