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About Alteryx
Alteryx is a leading AI-ready data and analytics company that powers actionable insights to help organizations drive smarter, faster decisions with data.
Alteryx currently has
10 open roles
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Listed pay typically runs
$147,000–$180,725
across 10 roles with salary data.
Manager, Platform Engineering leads a platform engineering team responsible for foundational services that product and engineering teams rely on to build, ship, and operate products. The manager oversees the full employee lifecycle, including hiring, performance management, coaching, and career development while ensuring high-quality delivery of reliable, maintainable platform capabilities at scale. This role involves translating strategy into actionable plans, managing team capacity, and overseeing technical design reviews for backend services, APIs, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure. The manager must balance near-term delivery with long-term platform health by coordinating with Product, Architecture, Security, and SRE teams. Key competencies include experience in SaaS or enterprise software environments, expertise in engineering hygiene like incident response and technical debt management, and the ability to navigate complex multi-system initiatives while ensuring operational readiness across distributed systems and cloud platforms.
Manage a team of software engineers including hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career development.
Translate product and engineering strategies into actionable plans, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
Oversee the delivery, quality, operational readiness, and predictability of the team's commitments.
Provide technical guidance on design reviews, implementation approaches, and scalability standards.
Manage team capacity, execution risks, dependencies, and trade-offs between near-term goals and long-term health.
Maintain engineering hygiene including planning, estimation, incident follow-up, and technical debt management.
Partner with cross-functional teams like Product, Security, and SRE to align on platform requirements.
Communicate team progress, risks, and resource needs to senior leadership.
What we're looking for
Previous experience directly managing software engineers including hiring, performance management, coaching, and career development.
3–5+ years of experience leading delivery of complex, multi-system engineering initiatives in SaaS, cloud platform, distributed systems, or enterprise environments (preferred).
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Demonstrated success as a senior software engineer, technical lead, or engineering manager with sufficient technical depth to guide trade-offs.
Solid technical background in backend services, APIs, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or platform-oriented engineering.
Proven ability to deliver high-quality software while balancing scope, schedule, quality, reliability, and operational supportability.
Ability to improve engineering practices such as planning, estimation, design review, incident response, observability, testing, and technical debt management.