Alteryx
Director, Infrastructure & Site Reliability Engineering
US - Remote · Director · Contract
Sponsorship not specified$182k-$240kDetected 8 days ago
Distributed SystemsAWSGCPCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformCI/CDPrometheusGrafanaDatadogSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringComplianceLoad TestingHIPAALeadershipCommunication
About the role
- We are seeking an experienced engineering leader to lead Alteryx's Infrastructure, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Observability, and Performance Engineering organizations.
- In this role, you will define the technical vision and execution strategy for the platforms and operational capabilities that power our cloud services, enabling engineering teams to build, deploy, and operate reliable, secure, and highly scalable products.
- You will lead multiple engineering teams responsible for cloud infrastructure, reliability engineering, observability, performance optimization, and operational excellence.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Develop proactive reliability programs including capacity planning, resiliency testing, disaster recovery, performance benchmarking, and operational risk management.
- 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.
- Partner with Security, Compliance, and Engineering teams to meet regulatory and customer requirements, including HIPAA, FedRAMP, SOC 2, and other compliance frameworks.
- At Alteryx, we support a growth mindset for our associates through all stages of their careers.
- As part of our ongoing commitment to a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace, we're invested in building teams with a wide variety of backgrounds, identities, and experiences.
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 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.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical strategy into business outcomes.
- 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.
- Proven ability to influence technical strategy and drive alignment across engineering, security, product, and executive stakeholders.
- Passion for building high-performing teams and developing engineering leaders.
- Valued Skills:
Skills
- 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
Compensation
- An annual $200 home office reimbursement
- Alteryx is committed to fair, equitable, and transparent compensation.
- Final compensation is determined by several factors, including but not limited to relevant work experience, education, certifications, skills, and geographic location.
- The salary range for this role in the United States is $181,900 - $239,610.
- In addition to base pay and bonus eligibility, this role includes clear forms of additional compensation, such as:
Benefits
- Alteryx has amazing benefits for all Associates which can be viewed here.
- 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.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Paid parental leave, caregiver leave, and flexible time off
- Mental health support and wellness reimbursement
- Career development and education assistance
- A monthly Connectivity Plus stipend of $150 to support remote work-related expenses
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