Alation - Software Engineer III

Description :

An independent contributor role who is one of the pillars of the team. Opportunity to own business-critical components and services, powering key use cases for Alation's customers. The role is one of high ownership, large business impact, and executing on a future vision that will be loved by the customers.

Responsibilities :

- Own the design, development, and optimization of features and services.

- Solve challenging technical problems with minimal guidance.

- Develop, maintain, and evangelize scalable, maintainable, and resilient source code.

- Maintain and improve development best practices, code quality, and testing strategies.

- Enhance automation by reducing execution time for faster feedback and reliable regression detection.

- Identify technical risks and propose mitigation strategies.

- Contribute to architectural discussions and provide input to ensure technical clarity across the team.

Requirements :

- 5+ years of professional experience designing, developing, and shipping software products and/or n-tier services.

- Proficiency in any object-oriented language, preferably Golang, Python, or Java.

- Experience in developing, deploying, and maintaining micro-services.

- Experience working with AI Code assistants to create code, tests, and review changes.

- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

- Ability to learn through collaboration and apply the knowledge to the assigned tasks.

- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or similar.

A Big Plus :

- Experience with Airflow, Kafka.

- Working experience in Kubernetes and/or Docker.

- Exposure to data modeling in RDBMS.