Principal Cloud Platform Architect

Alteryx

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Remote

Quick summary

Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$215,000–$300,000 / yr
Posted
31 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $199k
This role $258k
$124k most similar roles pay here $319k

This role pays more than 87% of similar roles. Most pay $169,550–$227,933 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $258k versus about $199k for comparable roles.

Based on 239 similar postings.

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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 8 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $152,000–$202,500 across 8 roles with salary data.

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At a glance

TL;DR · Principal Cloud Platform Architect

As a Principal, Cloud Platform Architect, you will join the team to define the technical vision for a multi-tenant, multi-cloud infrastructure supporting next-generation enterprise analytics and AI. You will lead cross-cutting initiatives across infrastructure, platform engineering, SRE, security, and product engineering to modernize the cloud platform. Your daily work involves designing scalable architectures for compute, networking, storage, and APIs while establishing reference standards and conducting architecture reviews for reliability and security. You will manage migrations, address architectural debt, and improve CI/CD pipelines. The role requires expertise in distributed systems, Kubernetes, and containerized platforms using GCP, AWS, or Azure. You will utilize Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog. Technical proficiency in Java, Python, or Go is required to build a secure, resilient SaaS platform.

What you'll do

  • Define the long-term multi-cloud and multi-region architecture for the enterprise SaaS platform.
  • Design scalable infrastructure for compute, networking, storage, and shared platform services.
  • Lead cloud migration initiatives and drive adoption of cloud-native technologies.
  • Establish reference architectures and best practices for security, scalability, and reliability.
  • Partner with SRE teams to design for high availability, disaster recovery, and observability.
  • Improve CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling to make infrastructure easily consumable by product teams.
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and prototype new approaches to address architectural debt.
  • Mentor senior engineers and increase architectural maturity across the entire organization.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years in software or cloud infrastructure engineering including experience at a Principal level.
  • Proven track record architecting large-scale, multi-region, multi-tenant, cloud-native SaaS platforms.
  • Deep expertise in distributed systems, Kubernetes, and containerized platforms.
  • Strong experience with GCP (preferred), AWS, or Azure.
  • Proficiency in cloud networking, Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform, and observability tools like Prometheus or Datadog.
  • Strong coding skills in Java, Python, Go, or similar languages.
  • Experience with enterprise cloud migrations, platform engineering, AI, or large-scale data platforms.
  • Export controls.

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