Software Development Engineer in Test - Performance Focus

Role overview

Software Development Engineer in Test - Performance Focus at Alteryx

Build features for an agentic, AI-first self-service performance platform.

This role is for a software engineer with 3+ years of software engineering experience, including exposure to developer tools, automation, CI/CD, performance testing, or cloud-native systems.

Responsibilities

• You'll be working on the challenges that sit at the heart of modern business.
• Work
• Develop reusable tools, templates, scripts, SDKs, and workflows for API, UI, service, and code performance testing.
• Help integrate performance checks into CI/CD pipelines and developer workflows.
• Build AI-assisted workflows for performance test creation, execution, result analysis, defect creation, and service-team notification.
• Support performance validation for Critical User Journeys, releases, and scale events.
• Help standardize performance test inputs, outputs, thresholds, evidence, and reporting.
• Integrate with observability tools such as Datadog, logs, traces, dashboards, and reporting systems.
• Work with product engineering, SRE, platform, QA, and architecture teams.
• Contribute to documentation, examples, and onboarding material for development teams.
• What We’re Looking For
• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Programming experience in Python, TypeScript, Go, or similar languages .
• Understanding of APIs, distributed systems, cloud services, and service-to-service communication.
• Experience with automation, CI/CD, internal tools, or developer workflows.
• Familiarity with performance testing concepts such as load, spike, soak, stress, capacity, or regression testing.
• Familiarity with observability using metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, or alerts.
• Ability to build simple, maintainable, and reusable software.
• Good communication and collaboration skills.

Required qualifications

• Experience with tools such as k6, Locust, and Grasshopper
• Experience in Python and TypeScript.
• Experience with Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, or InfluxDB.
• Experience with Kubernetes, cloud-native systems, or large-scale SaaS platforms.

Preferred qualifications and skills

• Experience with tools such as Playwright
• Experience with SLOs, SLIs, Apdex, error budgets, or burn-rate alerting.
• Experience building AI agents, MCPs, AI-assisted developer tools, or agentic automation workflows.
• Experience with Jira automation, defect routing, or engineering dashboards.
• What Success Looks Like
• Developers can create and run performance tests more easily.
• Performance checks become part of normal development and CI/CD workflows.
• AI-assisted workflows help teams generate tests, analyze failures, and create actionable defects.
• Performance results are clear, consistent, and useful.
• Product teams can detect regressions earlier and improve service performance faster.
• Why This Role Matters Performance is critical to customer trust.
• This role will help Alteryx build a scalable, AI-first, self-service performance engineering model used across engineering teams.
• 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.

Employment details

• Location : Pune (Hybrid)
• Location: Bangalore [India]

About the employer

• Meet the Moment with Alteryx

Additional role details

• 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.
• 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.
• We are hiring a Software Engineer to help build Alteryx’s next-generation Performance Engineering Platform.
• The goal is to help engineering teams test, understand, and improve performance earlier in the SDLC through developer-first, AI-assisted tooling.
• This is not a traditional QA or manual performance testing role.
• This is an engineering role focused on frameworks, automation, observability, CI/CD integration, and agentic AI workflows.