Sr. Manager, Software Engineering

• Lead, coach, and develop a multidisciplinary team of 10+ engineers, including hiring, performance management, succession planning, and career development.

• Build leadership capability among senior engineers and technical leads, creating strong and sustainable technical ownership across the team.

• Partner with Product Management to shape product and technical strategy and translate priorities into clear roadmaps and execution plans.

• Lead delivery across complex, cross-functional dependencies while identifying systemic execution gaps and improving transparency, predictability, and delivery effectiveness.

• Guide architectural consistency and review significant technical proposals across backend services, frontend experiences, data systems, and cloud infrastructure in partnership with senior engineers and architects.

• Own operational outcomes across service reliability, scalability, performance, security, cost optimization, observability, incident learning, and technical debt reduction.

• Champion the effective use of

throughout the software development lifecycle while maintaining strong standards for engineering ownership, testing, review, security, and quality.

• Communicate progress, risks, technical context, trade-offs, and recommendations clearly to senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.

owning and delivering mission-critical software platforms, core systems, or complex SaaS products.

• Demonstrated success as an

, delivering outcomes beyond a single team or across a complex technical domain.

• Strong experience with

and leading teams responsible for scalable cloud services, production infrastructure, and customer-facing software.

• Strong engineering judgment across architecture, system design, service boundaries, data flows, performance, reliability, security, and operational trade-offs.

• Experience improving engineering quality through automated testing, CI/CD, observability, incident management, secure development practices, and disciplined technical debt management.

• A strong track record of coaching engineers at different career levels, developing technical leaders, and delivering results through others.

• Proven ability to influence product and engineering strategy and align teams across

.

• Experience navigating ambiguity, organizational change, competing priorities, and incomplete information while maintaining clarity, focus, and team engagement.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with technical, product, customer-facing, and executive audiences.

• Demonstrated experience applying

across the software development lifecycle, including human oversight, evaluation, testing, security, and governance at scale.

• Experience developing

.

• Experience building data or analytics products, particularly within

.

• Experience leading teams responsible for operating and modernizing microservices, Kubernetes-based platforms, infrastructure as code, or multiple deployment models.

• Experience mentoring peer managers or contributing to broader engineering leadership practices beyond direct reporting lines.

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. 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. Originally posted on Himalayas