Principal Software Engineer – Distributed Systems

🕒 May 30

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $215k - $300k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Alteryx

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1001 - 5000 employees

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🤝 B2B

Analytics • Artificial Intelligence • B2B

Alteryx is a leading provider of enterprise analytics solutions that empower organizations to unlock valuable insights from their data. With its AI-driven analytics platform, Alteryx automates the processes of data preparation, analysis, and reporting, making analytics accessible to users at all skill levels. The platform offers features such as data enrichment, predictive modeling, and location intelligence, enabling businesses to improve operational efficiency and drive informed decision-making across various sectors, including financial services, retail, healthcare, and manufacturing.

📋 Description

• Define, evolve, and own the architectural vision and roadmaps for the major platform domains (e.g. orchestration, job execution, data pipelines, sidecar services) • Perform architecture reviews, assess proposals from teams, and vet designs for adherence to standards, scalability, performance, reliability, and security • Lead or contribute hands-on to critical subsystems (e.g. orchestrator, scheduling, service mesh, job pipelines, stateful services) • Drive and enforce cross-team architectural patterns • Provide thought leadership: prototype proofs-of-concept, evaluate new tools/technologies, bring innovation into the platform • Mentor and coach architects, senior engineers, and guide teams through architectural change • Collaborate with infrastructure, operations, SRE, security, and DevOps to ensure the architecture is operable, observable, and maintainable in production • Help define and lead architecture governance (e.g. architecture review board, reference architectures, standards, guidelines) • Participate in tech strategy, roadmap planning with product & engineering leadership • Diagnose and resolve technical debt or architectural "smells" across the codebase, enforcing consistency

🎯 Requirements

• ~10+ (or more) years of software engineering experience • At least 3–5 years in senior architect or principal-level roles (or equivalent) • Proven track record of designing and operating large-scale, distributed systems in a production environment • Deep hands-on experience with orchestration, scheduler systems, job pipelines, or workflow engines • Strong proficiency in one or more of: Java / JVM ecosystem, Python, Node.js, or equivalent high-level backend languages • Experience with message/event systems (e.g. Kafka or similar), queueing, streaming architectures • Familiarity with in-memory data stores and caching (e.g. Redis or equivalents) • Strong knowledge of containerization, Kubernetes, sidecar patterns, service meshes, proxies, etc. • Understanding or experience in split-plane architectures (control plane / data plane separation) is highly desirable • Strong skills in API design, data modeling, integration patterns, error handling, consistency • Experience with observability (metrics, tracing, logging) and designing systems for operability and failure modes • Ability to conduct performance analysis, capacity planning, scaling, fault tolerance strategies • Excellent communication skills—able to articulate tradeoffs, convince stakeholders, write design docs, lead design reviews • Ability to function autonomously, make decisions in ambiguity, drive consensus across teams, and adopt/evict technologies as needed • Strong judgment about when to optimize vs. when to simplify • Familiarity with high-scale cloud deployments (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP) and infrastructure-as-code is a plus

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