Alation
Alation builds an enterprise data intelligence platform centered on a data catalog, lineage, and governance to power self-service analytics and AI readiness for large organizations. It sells subscription software and services to enterprises migrating to the cloud and standardizing trusted data for regulatory and operational use. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, the privately held company is credited with pioneering the data catalog category and is used across Fortune 100 and global enterprises.
Open Positions at Alation
5 open positions
Lead customer-embedded engineering engagements that turn ambiguous enterprise data and governance challenges into production-grade AI agent solutions. This senior individual contributor role combines rapid prototyping, enterprise architecture, and influence across customers, Product, Engineering, and GTM.
Staff Forward Deployed Engineer who designs and delivers AI-driven data governance solutions for strategic enterprise customers using Alation’s platform. The role combines hands-on prototyping, data and ML pipelines, enterprise architecture, and customer-facing technical leadership.
Build Alation’s next-generation agentic AI enablement systems, including orchestration, retrieval, personalization, and evaluation infrastructure. This hands-on role combines end-to-end software ownership with close collaboration across product, marketing, support, and field teams.
Senior Software Engineer leading the architecture and delivery of scalable, multi-service systems for Alation’s enterprise data connector ecosystem. The role combines hands-on technical leadership, mentorship, complex customer issue resolution, and AI-assisted engineering practices.
Software Engineer III at Alation will own and evolve business-critical features and services powering AI-driven data intelligence use cases. This high-ownership role combines backend services and frontend development with AI-augmented engineering practices.