Staff Developer Platform Engineer

Overview

Staff Developer Platform Engineer to drive infrastructure, pipeline, and deployment excellence across Alteryx engineering organizations, working closely with Developer Platform & Enablement.

What you'll do

• Evolve GitLab at scale within GCP/GKE, including governance, permissions, runners, and pipeline infrastructure, as part of Developer Experience and build/release operations.
• Design and implement pipeline orchestration and progressive-delivery systems built on Argo Rollouts and Kargo, including auto-promote/auto-rollback patterns.
• Partner with Connectors teams on DevOps for third-party connectors (ODBC and similar), including their build, release, and deployment pipelines.
• Contribute to FinSights: developer insights and FinOps tooling and practices.
• Design and oversee buildout of deployment and release-safety practices for large, distributed cloud systems, including clear guidance on when it's safe to roll back versus roll forward.
• Partner with engineering teams on safe database change management and recovery processes for production systems.
• Drive adoption and continuous improvement of quality-of-life toolsets, alongside AI SDLC systems and other developer tooling, including agentic code review systems, internal developer platforms, AI ROI analytics systems, and localdev/ephemeral environment systems.
• Build and evangelize self-service tooling that makes safe deployment and recovery practices easy for teams to adopt.
• Coach and mentor engineers across teams on deployment safety, pipeline design, and infrastructure best practices.
• Collaborate closely with peer Staff Engineers to identify and close coverage gaps across the Developer Platform and Engineering Enablement scope.
• Translate architects' longer-range direction on pipeline systems and orchestration into concrete technical plans and hands-on execution.
• Bring product-management-adjacent thinking (roadmapping, stakeholder alignment, adoption strategy) to drive org-wide uptake of new platform tooling and practices.

What you'll need

• 8+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, DevOps/Platform Engineer, or SRE, with demonstrated Staff-level scope and impact.
• Deep, hands-on experience administering GitLab (or a comparable SCM/CI platform) at scale, ideally within a self-hosted ecosystem (GCP/GKE or AWS/EKS/EC2).
• Proven experience designing and operating CI/CD pipeline and orchestration systems, including progressive-delivery tooling (Argo Rollouts, Kargo, or similar).
• Strong track record managing safe deployment, rollback, and recovery processes for large, distributed cloud systems, including database change management.
• Solid understanding of Kubernetes, containerization, and cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred).
• Experience coaching and mentoring engineers, and driving adoption of new tooling and practices across teams.
• Excellent cross-team collaboration and communication skills, with comfort partnering with architects and peer Staff Engineers to define technical direction across a broad, multi-team surface area.
• Willingness to occasionally participate in meetings with US-based and EMEA-based teams outside of standard local hours.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI-assisted tooling and automation in a platform engineering context (AI SDLC systems).
• Familiarity with test infrastructure, testing at scale, or observability/tracing.
• Exposure to third-party database connector ecosystems (ODBC or similar).
• Familiarity with FinOps practices and developer productivity insights/metrics.
• Hands-on familiarity with quality-of-life developer tooling.
• Background in software architecture or async systems.
• Product-management-adjacent experience (roadmapping, driving adoption, stakeholder alignment).

Details

• Remote-friendly position based in the USA.
• Salary range in the United States: $183,125 - $200,450, plus possible bonus and other benefits.
• Subject to U.S. export controls; job offer contingent on compliance.