Director, Infrastructure & Site Reliability Engineering

Alteryx

Director of Infrastructure & Site Reliability Engineering at Alteryx overseeing cloud infrastructure and ensuring operational excellence. Leading multiple teams to enhance platform efficiency and reliability.

Posted 7/14/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $181,900 - $239,610 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive expertise in Infrastructure, Site Reliability Engineering, and Cloud Operations, with a strong focus on AWS and GCP environments. Proven ability to lead engineering teams, implement Infrastructure-as-Code practices, and ensure compliance with regulatory frameworks while fostering a culture of operational excellence.

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Infrastructure-as-CodeAWS Cloud OperationsGCP Cloud OperationsDatadog ObservabilitySRE Practices

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Hard Skills

Infrastructure EngineeringSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringCloud NetworkingKubernetesTerraformSLOsSLIsIncident ManagementOperational Risk Management

Soft Skills

Excellent CommunicationTeam BuildingMentoringCustomer FocusContinuous Learning

Tools & Technologies

DatadogOpenTelemetryPrometheusGrafanaCI/CD Pipelines

Certifications & Qualifications

HIPAA ComplianceFedRAMP ComplianceSOC 2 ComplianceISO 27001 Compliance

Industry Keywords

SaaS ProductsOperational ExcellenceRegulated EnvironmentsPerformance EngineeringCloud Infrastructure

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaKubernetesPrometheusTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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