Meet the Moment with Alteryx
We're living through a once-in-a-generation shift in how work gets done. Data, automation, and AI are quickly becoming the center of every business decision - and Alteryx is leading the transformation.
You'll be working on the challenges that sit at the heart of modern business. No matter your role, the work you do will help organizations move faster, see more clearly, and tackle questions that used to feel impossible.
If you're ready to meet the moment with innovation, curiosity, and excellence, there's a place for you here.
Why work for just any analytics company? At Alteryx , Inc., we are explorers, dreamers and innovators. We’re on a journey to build the best analytics platform in the world, but we can’t do it without people like you, leading the way. Forget the stereotypical tech companies of the past. Embrace the unconventional, exercise your imagination and help alter the future with Alteryx .
Sr. Software Engineer
Current:
Responsibilities:
- Assist Product Management and SDK team in definition of work (stories, tasks)
- Take full ownership of work outcomes including design, development, and testing; support and contribute to DevOps pipeline
- Contribute to quality system (framework), with a strong commitment to leading with quality
- Participate in code reviews, ensuring our delivery of clean, well-tested, and performant software
- Help in the development of a great work environment by being a leader and mentor within the team and working collaboratively across teams
Required Skills:
- Design, implement, and maintain embedded Python runtime integration in a predominantly C++ engine/host environment.
- Own and evolve the Alteryx Python Tool including C++ plugin engines and process lifecycle (server startup, persistence, shutdown).
- Develop and troubleshoot SDK engine plugin components (e.g., gRPC-based engine plugins, streaming pipelines) in C++ with Python-facing APIs.
- Debug complex native/runtime issues involving DLL/.pyd conflicts, OpenSSL and other native libraries across multiple Python versions.
- Lead modernization work around virtualenv/venv management and installer/packaging plumbing , including WiX (installer) and native DLL exports.
- Maintain and extend native/compiled Python extensions, ensuring compatibility with modern NumPy/CPython ABIs.
- Collaborate with security and platform teams to remediate native library vulnerabilities (e.g., c-ares, libxml2, SQLite, OpenSSL) and keep the SBOM healthy.
- Improve and support developer SDKs (v1/v2), including debugging C++/Python streaming and serialization issues for 1P and 3P tool authors.
- Drive reliability and performance improvements in engine ↔ Python bridges , focusing on deadlocks, crashes, and high-throughput streaming scenarios.