Software Engineer III

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.