Big Data isn’t a problem. It’s an opportunity.

At Alation, we help people find, understand, and trust data. So they not only excel in their work — they drive value for their enterprise, team, and role. In the words of one customer, “Alation makes me look like a rockstar.”

We help companies you know and trust empower their people with the best data every day. Alation helps Discover Financial Services quickly generate value from their data to create the product and customer service innovations that help the iconic credit card company remain number one in customer satisfaction. And real estate giant Keller Williams uses Alation to govern the more than 70 TB of data that empowers their global team of over 190,000 agents.

With $340M in funding – valued at over $1.7 billion and 550+ customers, including 35% of Fortune 100 companies- Alation is poised to capitalize on data as an opportunity. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Alation was named to Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces list for the fourth time. Do you want to join a team that welcomes new ideas, supports your growth, and recognizes your unique value?

Join us!

Job Description:

What you’ll do:

• Build and maintain flexible APIs, comprehensive test suites, third-party integrations, and secure, scalable, high-performance, and fault-tolerant infrastructure that targets multiple deployment environments

• Collaborate with Product & Design to make roadmap determinations, to ensure a high-quality user experience, and to make smart scoping and priority decisions to ship fast, impactful code

• Represent Engineering in customer meetings to gather requirements or to provide support for existing functionality

• Work closely and mentor other team members to drive innovative solutions

You should have:

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience

• 8+ years of experience designing, developing, and shipping software products and services.

• Expert proficiency with Python or Java

• Experience working with RDBMS, data modeling, and APIs

• Desire to dive into details of complex code and to identify solutions that improve quality of service and reduce operational and support burden

• Solid understanding of SDLC, version control, and agile methodologies

• Ability to translate business requirements and “user needs” into code – experience owning projects or features from planning to release

• Adaptability and readiness to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

• Working experience with JDBC along with various RDBMS and auth methods is strongly preferred

• Experience building multi-tenant services, working with in-memory datastores and messaging frameworks, and processing data at scale are major pluses

• The following are also pluses

  • Understanding of JVM profiling and optimization

  • Working experience with AWS infrastructure

  • Knowledge of the following: GHA/Jenkins; ElastiCache/Redis; Airflow/Celery; Django or any ORM or REST frameworks

  • Familiarity with LLMs

Alation, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to that individual’s race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The Company will strive to provide reasonable accommodations to permit qualified applicants who have a need for an accommodation to participate in the hiring process (e.g., accommodations for a job interview) if so requested.

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