4 months ago
Chennai, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Architect and lead complex, multi-service features from concept through delivery.
- Set standards for code quality, testing discipline, performance, and production reliability.
- Break down large-scale initiatives into actionable engineering milestones.
- Mentor engineers through code reviews and technical partnership.
- Resolve complex customer issues through root cause analysis and permanent fixes.
- Champion AI-native engineering tools and establish reliable prompting and review practices.
- Influence architectural decisions, hiring standards, and technical direction across the organization.
Requirements
- More than 8 years of professional experience building and shipping production software or n-tier services at scale.
- Exceptional object-oriented design skills with deep expertise in Java and/or Python and Go.
- Demonstrated experience delivering end-to-end systems, cross-service integrations, and extensibility frameworks.
- Strong technical writing, architectural leadership, communication, and peer influence skills.
- Experience with microservices and resilient distributed systems.
- History of mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- Preferred experience includes data connectors, ETL pipelines, metadata extraction frameworks, Kubernetes, Docker, JDBC, ODBC, Snowflake, Databricks, SAP, data catalogs, Airflow, and RDBMS data modeling.
About 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.