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How Alation hires

Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%

Alation scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 5 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Visa sponsorship

  • United States · H-1B filings in 12 months: 8 · green card filings: 6
  • United Kingdom · Licensed UK visa sponsor (Senior or Specialist Worker, Skilled Worker)

Visa details by country

Overview

Alation is a data catalog built for collaboration. With Alation, analysts can search, query and collaborate on their data to access insights. Alation was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in California.

News

News markets.businessinsider.com 29 days ago
Alation Launches AIOS Expansion with Six Products that Accelerate AI Transformation
CHICAGO, Sept. 17, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Alation Inc., the creators of the intelligence operating system, today at revAlation, its annual use...
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News Pulse 2.0 29 days ago
Alation Expands AIOS With Six Products For AI Governance, Enterprise Context And Agent Management
Alation has expanded its AIOS intelligence operating system with six new products designed to help enterprises govern the data, business context and AI agents underlying their artificial intelligence applications. The company announced AI Governance, Onto
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News Data Technologies 29 days ago
New features position Alation
Lineage tracing in AI Governance and governed access to unstructured data set up Alation
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News markets.businessinsider.com 1 month ago
Alation Named a Leader in the 2026 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Data Intelligence Platform Software
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Sept. 04, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Alation Inc., the creators of the intelligence operating system, today announced that i...
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News CIO 5 months ago
How Georgia-Pacific drives autonomous decision-making
The producer of pulp and paper products is fine-tuning its data platform to provide an environment where AI agents can problem solve better, and strengthen business acuity.
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News crn.com 3 years ago
Alation Looks To Simplify Third-Party Data Searches With New Marketplaces Service CRN
Alation Marketplaces helps users search for third-party data on AWS, Snowflake and other sources.
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News Help Net Security 4 years ago
Alation Connected Sheets enables business users to pull data from other sources into spreadsheets
Alation launches Alation Connected Sheets, a new product stemming from the company's acquisition of Kloud.io.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Alation over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
57
Postings analysed
24
Stack modernity
87/100AI adopter
Languages
Python33%
SQL25%
Java17%
Go8%
Frameworks & libraries
AutoGen4%
CrewAI4%
Hadoop4%
LangChain4%
Databases
Snowflake21%
ElasticSearch4%
HBase4%
PostgreSQL4%
Cloud & platforms
Kubernetes21%
Databricks17%
AWS13%
Azure8%
AI & ML
Claude21%
LLM17%
ChatGPT4%
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Full Alation tech stack 57 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$171k
Typical range
$80k – $371k
Open positions
11
9 Jobs
Junior 11.1%
Senior 22.2%
Staff 55.6%
Architect 11.1%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 1 $80k $80k
Senior 2 $137k $128k – $146k
Staff 5 $199k $171k – $275k
Architect 1 $371k $371k
Highest paying role Director, Inside Sales $371k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Alation By role, level and city, against the market · 11 jobs with pay

Growth

Hiring Momentum
71/100
Growing
Open positions
22
4 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
112 days
faster than 12% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~14 hours
10/15/2026
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Solutions
33% ▲
Sales
22% ▼
Backend
17% ▼
AI/ML
6% ▼
Networking
6% ▲
Product
6% ▲
Actively hiring for Solutions (+6 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: Sydney Oct 2026
New location: London Oct 2026
Added Master Data Management to stack Oct 2026
Added LangChain to stack Oct 2026
Added Fine-tuning to stack Oct 2026
Added CrewAI to stack Oct 2026
Added AutoGen to stack Oct 2026
Added LinkedIn to stack Oct 2026
New location: Redwood City Oct 2026
New location: Australia Oct 2026
New location: United Kingdom Oct 2026
New location: United States Oct 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
4
Hiring now
4
Countries
4
Busiest office
Redwood City
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Redwood City United States
HQ
Redwood City (Headquarters)
4 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 25% engineering 50-200 est. staff $177k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, Backend, Operations
Suite #300, Redwood City, CA 94065, USA
seen since Aug 2026 company site, job postings
Chennai India
Engineering / R&D
IND-Chennai
10 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 70% engineering 10% remote 200-500 est. staff
hires for Backend, AI/ML, Networking
20th Floor, Tower B
seen since Mar 2026 company site, job postings
London United Kingdom
GBR-United Kingdom
2 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff $199k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing, Solutions
seen since Jul 2026 job postings
Sydney Australia
AUS-Australia
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Sales
seen since Aug 2026 job postings

Jobs

≈ $11k – $33k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Chennai
Python
PowerShell
Bash
AI Agents
DevOps
Terraform
PagerDuty
Git
AWS
Kubernetes
Opsgenie
kubectl
Amazon EKS
AWS Lambda
Amazon EC2
IAM
Amazon CloudWatch
Linux
Cybersecurity
ISO 27001
MITRE ATT&CK
OWASP Top 10
SOC 2
GDPR
SIEM
Analytics
Alation
Management
Jira
n8n
ServiceNow
Zapier
Power Automate
ITIL
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$127k – $171k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 6+ years exp • United States
AI Agents
Analytics
Master Data Management
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$200k – $275k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 12+ years exp • United States
SQL
AutoGen
LangChain
Fine-tuning
AI Agents
CrewAI
LLM
RAG
Agentic Workflows
Analytics
Alation
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In office • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Chennai
Python
Go
Java
Apache Kafka
DevOps
Docker
Kubernetes
Analytics
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$127k – $171k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 6+ years exp • Master's Degree • United States
Python
SQL
AI Agents
Analytics
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$167k – $227k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • United States
SQL
Snowflake
Databricks
AI/ML
AI Agents
LLM
RAG
Agentic Workflows
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
Analytics
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$142k – $199k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 10+ years exp • London
Snowflake
Databricks
AI/ML
AI Agents
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
Analytics
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$93k – $125k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • United States
SQL
AI Agents
DevOps
Rest API
Analytics
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≈ $26k – $53k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Chennai
AI Agents
Analytics
Alation
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$80k per year • Hybrid • Contractor • Redwood City
JavaScript
TypeScript
Copilot
AI Agents
Frontend
React.js
Analytics
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≈ $21k – $50k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Chennai
Model Context Protocol
AI Agents
LLM
RAG
LLM Evaluation
LLM Guardrails
Agentic Workflows
Analytics
Alation
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≈ $17k – $39k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Chennai
Python
Java
Snowflake
Databricks
AI/ML
Copilot
Cursor
Claude Code
AI Agents
DevOps
Docker
Kubernetes
Analytics
ETL/ELT
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