Director, Infrastructure & Site Reliability Engineering

Alteryx, Inc.
Irvine, United States of America
yesterday

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
$ 64K

Job location

Remote
Irvine, United States of America

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Software as a Service
Cloud Computing
Continuous Integration
Disaster Recovery
Distributed Systems
Load Testing
Performance Tuning
Reliability Engineering
Site Reliability Engineering Practices
Cloud Services
Prometheus
Software Engineering
Datadog
Grafana
Kubernetes
Infrastructure Automation Frameworks
Terraform
Software Performance
Alteryx

Job description

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. This leader will partner closely with Product Engineering, Security, Compliance, and Customer Operations to ensure our platform meets the highest standards for availability, scalability, security, and customer experience., * Define and execute the strategy for Alteryx's centralized Infrastructure, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Observability, and Performance Engineering organizations.

  • 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.
  • Own the company's observability strategy by building and operating enterprise-grade telemetry platforms using Datadog and related technologies, enabling actionable insights into system health, performance, and customer experience.
  • Partner with Security, Compliance, and Engineering teams to meet regulatory and customer requirements, including HIPAA, FedRAMP, SOC 2, and other compliance frameworks.
  • Establish and continuously improve incident management practices, including operational readiness, on-call excellence, postmortem culture, root cause analysis, and measurable reliability improvements.
  • Develop proactive reliability programs including capacity planning, resiliency testing, disaster recovery, performance benchmarking, and operational risk management.
  • Define reliability engineering frameworks that enable product teams to own service health through Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), error budgets, performance objectives, and operational accountability.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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 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.
  • 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.
  • Proven ability to influence technical strategy and drive alignment across engineering, security, product, and executive stakeholders.
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical strategy into business outcomes.
  • Passion for building high-performing teams and developing engineering leaders.

Valued 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

Benefits & conditions

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.

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:

  • A monthly Connectivity Plus stipend of $150 to support remote work-related expenses
  • An annual $200 home office reimbursement

Alteryx offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your health, financial security, and overall well-being, including:

  • 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

About the company

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.

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