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Principal Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

June 2, 2026

Meet the Moment with Alteryx We're living through a once-in-a-generation shift in how work gets done. Data, automation, and AI are quickly becoming the center of every business decision - and Alteryx is leading the transformation. You'll be working on the challenges that sit at the heart of modern business. No matter your role, the work you do will help organizations move faster, see more clearly, and tackle questions that used to feel impossible. If you're ready to meet the moment with innovation, curiosity, and excellence, there's a place for you here.<div><div>Alteryx is searching for a Principal Engineer. This position is remote-friendly.Position Overview:We are looking for a highly autonomous, senior architect to drive, review, and own the software architecture for our core platform. This person will be the technical conscience for large-scale, distributed systems, and will collaborate closely with engineering leads, product owners, and infrastructure teams. You will design, evolve, and enforce architectural standards and patterns; lead cross-cutting initiatives; and mentor other engineers. At this level, we expect you to operate with minimal handholding, you will influence and make tough technical decisions, resolve tradeoffs, and bring clarity to ambiguity.Primary Responsibilities: <ul><li>Define, evolve, and own the architectural vision and roadmaps for the major platform domains (e.g. orchestration, job execution, data pipelines, sidecar services).</li><li>Perform architecture reviews, assess proposals from teams, and vet designs for adherence to standards, scalability, performance, reliability, and security.</li><li>Lead or contribute hands-on to critical subsystems (e.g. orchestrator, scheduling, service mesh, job pipelines, stateful services).</li><li>Drive and enforce cross-team architectural patterns.</li><li>Provide thought leadership: prototype proofs-of-concept, evaluate new tools/technologies, bring innovation into the platform.</li><li>Mentor and coach architects, senior engineers, and guide teams through architectural change.</li><li>Collaborate with infrastructure, operations, SRE, security, and DevOps to ensure the architecture is operable, observable, and maintainable in production.</li><li>Help define and lead architecture governance (e.g. architecture review board, reference architectures, standards, guidelines).</li><li>Participate in tech strategy, roadmap planning with product & engineering leadership.</li><li>Diagnose and resolve technical debt or architectural “smells” across the codebase, enforcing consistency.</li></ul>Qualifications: <ul><li>Experience: ~10+ (or more) years of software engineering experience, with at least 3–5 years in senior architect or principal-level roles (or equivalent).</li><li>Proven track record of designing and operating large-scale, distributed systems in a production environment.</li><li>Deep hands-on experience with orchestration, scheduler systems, job pipelines, or workflow engines.</li><li>Strong proficiency in one or more of: Java / JVM ecosystem, Python, Node.js, or equivalent high-level backend languages.</li><li>Experience with message/event systems (e.g. Kafka or similar), queueing, streaming architectures.</li><li>Familiarity with in-memory data stores and caching (e.g. Redis or equivalents).</li><li>Strong knowledge of containerization, Kubernetes, sidecar patterns, service meshes, proxies, etc.</li><li>Understanding or experience in split-plane architectures (control plane / data plane separation) is highly desirable.</li><li>Strong skills in API design, data modeling, integration patterns, error handling, consistency.</li><li>Experience with observability (metrics, tracing, logging) and designing systems for operability and failure modes.</li><li>Ability to conduct performance analysis, capacity planning, scaling, fault tolerance strategies.</li><li>Excellent communication skills—able to articulate tradeoffs, convince stakeholders, write design docs, lead design reviews.</li><li>Ability to function autonomously, make decisions in ambiguity, drive consensus across teams, and adopt/evict technologies as needed.</li><li>Strong judgment about when to optimize vs. when to simplify.</li><li>Familiarity with high-scale cloud deployments (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP) and infrastructure-as-code is a plus.</li></ul>Behavioral Traits & Soft Skills:<ul><li>Self-starter and independent: you’ll take ownership with minimal direction.</li><li>Ability to see the forest and the trees: high-level architectural vision + detailed component thinking.</li><li>Bias for action: you move forward, prototype, iterate, course-correct.</li><li>Collaborative: able to work across teams, mentor, negotiate constraints.</li><li>Pragmatic: balancing ideal architecture with business realities and timelines.</li><li>Strong problem-solving mindset and good intuition about tradeoffs under constraints.</li></ul>Metrics of Success/What You’ll Be Measured On:<ul><li>Quality, consistency, and maintainability of architectural decisions across the platform.</li><li>Reduction in architectural debt and increase in architectural coherence over time.</li><li>Adoption of patterns and standards across teams.</li><li>Ability to resolve cross-cutting issues and unblock teams in architecture matters.</li><li>Delivery of strategic cross-domain initiatives or major refactoring with low disruption.</li><li>Mentorship, influence, and raising the architecture maturity of engineering teams.</li><li>System reliability, performance, scalability, and maintainability improvements.</li></ul>Compensation: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 $215,000 - $300,000.Bonus payouts are based on individual and company performance.In addition to base pay and bonus eligibility, this role includes clear forms of additional compensation, such as:<ul><li>A monthly Connectivity Plus stipend of $150 to support remote work-related expenses</li><li>An annual $200 home office reimbursement</li></ul>Alteryx offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your health, financial security, and overall well-being, including:<ul><li>Medical, dental, and vision coverage</li><li>401(k) with company match</li><li>Paid parental leave, caregiver leave, and flexible time off</li><li>Mental health support and wellness reimbursement</li><li>Career development and education assistance</li></ul>Interested? Learn more and apply today at alteryx.com/careers!#LI-EM1#LI-REMOTE</div></div>Find yourself checking a lot of these boxes but doubting whether you should apply? At Alteryx, we support a growth mindset for our associates through all stages of their careers. If you meet some of the requirements and you share our values, we encourage you to apply. 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.Benefits & Perks:Alteryx has amazing benefits for all Associates which can be viewed <a href="https://myalteryxbenefits.com/main-site/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>. <div><div><div><div>For roles in San Francisco and Los Angeles: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Alteryx will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.</div></div></div></div>This position involves access to software/technology that is subject to U.S. export controls. Any job offer made will be contingent upon the applicant’s capacity to serve in compliance with U.S. export controls.

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