Software Engineer, Cloud Platform & Data Plane Transport

Alteryx

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Work type
Remote
Location
Irvine, CA
Salary
$120,000–$139,000 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
7 days ago
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Confirmed live today

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Below market

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This role pays less than 90% of similar roles. Most pay $151,000–$203,675 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $130k versus about $177k for comparable roles.

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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 9 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $140,000–$177,000 across 9 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Software Engineer, Cloud Platform & Data Plane Transport

The Software Engineer - Cloud Platform & Data Plane Transport joins the Data Plane Transport team within Cloud Platform Engineering. This backend-focused role involves designing, developing, and maintaining foundational services and APIs that enable secure, reliable communication between Alteryx Cloud, data planes, and customer environments. You will build and improve secure connectivity solutions, including service registration, orchestration, routing, and proxy-based communication for products like Data Bridge. Key responsibilities include developing cloud-native services in AWS and GCP, troubleshooting networking components, and contributing to frontend applications. The role requires proficiency in Go, TypeScript, and React, alongside experience with distributed systems, REST APIs, and networking fundamentals like HTTP/TLS and TCP/IP. You will solve complex problems regarding secure private data access and scalable connectivity across distributed cloud environments.

What does a Software Engineer earn in California?

Median $214500 from 1193 postings across 76 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design, develop, test, and maintain backend services, APIs, and distributed systems using Go.
  • Build secure connectivity solutions for service registration, orchestration, routing, and proxy-based communication.
  • Own features from initial implementation and testing through deployment and production support.
  • Develop and maintain cloud-native services in AWS and GCP with a focus on scalability and security.
  • Troubleshoot issues across application code, cloud infrastructure, and networking components.
  • Improve automated testing, monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational tooling.
  • Contribute to frontend applications and platform management experiences using TypeScript and React.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation to maintain production reliability and address recurring issues.

What we're looking for

  • 2+ years of professional software engineering experience or equivalent relevant experience.
  • Experience building backend services and REST APIs using Go or a comparable backend language.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals including debugging, automated testing, and writing clean, maintainable code.
  • Familiarity with distributed systems, microservices, and service-to-service communication.
  • Understanding of networking fundamentals including HTTP/TLS, TCP/IP, DNS, and client-server communication.
  • Experience developing or deploying applications in cloud environments such as AWS or GCP.
  • Experience with Git, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and modern software development practices.
  • Export controls.

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