Software Engineer
About The Position
Alteryx is seeking a Software Engineer for its Data Plane Transport team within Cloud Platform Engineering. The team builds and operates foundational services that support secure, reliable communication between Alteryx Cloud, data planes, and customer environments. Its work includes Data Bridge, which enables secure access to private data sources, as well as shared platform services for connectivity, networking, registration, and orchestration across distributed cloud environments. This is a hands-on, backend-focused role primarily developing services and APIs in Go, with opportunities to contribute to frontend applications using TypeScript and React. The engineer will collaborate with experienced engineers, contribute to technical decisions, and own features and improvements from development through production. The role is remote-friendly and includes participation in an on-call rotation after onboarding.
Requirements
- At least 2 years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent relevant experience.
- Experience building backend services and REST APIs using Go or a comparable backend language, with the ability to become productive in Go.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including debugging, automated testing, and writing clean, maintainable code.
- Familiarity with distributed systems, microservices, and service-to-service communication.
- Understanding of networking fundamentals, including HTTP/TLS, TCP/IP, DNS, and client-server communication.
- Experience developing or deploying applications in cloud environments such as AWS, GCP, or similar platforms.
- Experience with Git, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and modern software development practices.
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills, with the ability to independently deliver scoped work while collaborating with a team.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with TypeScript, React, or similar frontend technologies.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, or other cloud-native tooling.
- Familiarity with cloud networking, private connectivity, proxies, gateways, or secure tunneling.
- Exposure to event-driven architectures and messaging technologies such as Kafka, Redis, or Pub/Sub.
- Familiarity with observability tools such as Datadog, metrics, logging, and distributed tracing.
- Understanding of security concepts such as authentication, certificates, secrets management, and encryption.
- Experience troubleshooting production services, participating in on-call rotations, or improving system reliability.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and maintain backend services, APIs, and distributed systems, primarily using Go.
- Build and improve secure connectivity solutions involving service registration, orchestration, routing, and proxy/relay-based communication.
- Own well-defined features and enhancements through implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.
- Develop and maintain cloud-native services running in AWS and GCP, focusing on reliability, security, and scalability.
- Contribute to frontend applications and platform management experiences using TypeScript and React when needed.
- Investigate and troubleshoot issues across application code, cloud infrastructure, and networking components.
- Improve automated testing, monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational tooling.
- Participate in technical discussions, design reviews, and code reviews while collaborating with Product, Infrastructure, Security, and other engineering teams.
- Participate in an on-call rotation after onboarding to help maintain production reliability and address recurring issues.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- 401(k) with company match.
- Paid parental leave, caregiver leave, and flexible time off.
- Mental health support and wellness reimbursement.
- Career development and education assistance.
- Target annual bonus of 15% of base salary, based on individual and company performance.
- Monthly Connectivity Plus stipend of $150 to support remote work-related expenses.
- Annual $200 home office reimbursement.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
