Staff Observability Engineer

We’re looking for problem solvers, innovators, and dreamers who are searching for anything but business as usual. Like us, you’re a high performer who’s an expert at your craft, constantly challenging the status quo. You value inclusivity and want to join a culture that empowers you to show up as your authentic self. You know that success hinges on commitment, that our differences make us stronger, and that the finish line is always sweeter when the whole team crosses together.

Alteryx is searching for a Staff Observability Engineer. This position is remote-friendly.

Position Overview:

As a Staff Observability Engineer you’ll be driving the vision and roadmap for Observability in Alteryx One. Help design, architect, build and manage the Observability platform for metrics, logs and tracing.  You’ll also be the chief evangelist with stakeholders on Observability and SRE concepts and practices (e.g. SLOs).  Help create a center of excellence for Observability within the company.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Drive the Observability architecture roadmap for metrics, logs, and tracing systems for Alteryx One.

• Architect, design, and ensure implementation of the Observability system for Alteryx One.

• Define, drive, and evangelize SLOs (Service Level Objectives) across critical services, ensuring alignment between engineering reliability goals and business SLAs.

• Partner with SRE, product, and platform teams to translate business outcomes into measurable reliability targets that are actionable and observable.

• Evangelize tools and practices with engineering, architecture and customer service teams as a subject matter expert.

• Ensure stakeholder teams are using the tools in the best way, make iterative improvements through problem solving, empathy and communication.

Qualifications:

• In-depth experience designing at scale monitoring, logging and tracing systems for production products.

• In-depth experience defining and operating SLOs and managing error budgets across engineering teams.

• Prior experience evangelizing and driving adoption of SLOs across engineering teams.

• 5+ years expertise with metrics, time-series, logging and/or distributed tracing.

• 3+ years experience with building observability systems using products like Elastic Search, Splunk, datadog, Prometheus, TICK stack, Grafana, kibana.

• 5+ years programming and software development – python, java, go, .NET or any other language.

• 2+ years mentoring and training staff members.

• 2+ years experience working with configuration management tools (e.g. Terraform, Ansible).

• 1+ years experience working with Kubernetes.

• 1+ years experience working with cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure).

• Working knowledge of SDLC concepts.

Compensation:

Alteryx is committed to fair, equitable, and transparent compensation. Final compensation will be determined by various factors such as your relevant work experience, education, certifications, skills, and geographic location. 

The salary range for this role in the United States is $166,375 - $212,000.

In addition, you may be eligible for additional compensation, such as a bonus. Employees may also be eligible for a wide range of other benefits, including medical, retirement, financial, wellness, time off, employee discounts, and others.

Interested? Learn more and apply today at alteryx.com/careers!

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Find yourself checking a lot of these boxes but doubting whether you should apply? At Alteryx, we support a growth mindset for our associates through all stages of their careers. If you meet some of the requirements and you share our values, we encourage you to apply. As part of our ongoing commitment to a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace, we’re invested in building teams with a wide variety of backgrounds, identities, and experiences.

Benefits & Perks:

Alteryx has amazing benefits for all Associates which can be viewed here.

This position involves access to software/technology that is subject to U.S. export controls. Any job offer made will be contingent upon the applicant’s capacity to serve in compliance with U.S. export controls.