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Software Engineer II

Alation

Alation

Software Engineering
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Posted on Dec 5, 2025

Alation is pioneering the next era of data intelligence — powered by AI agents and trusted data. Organizations around the world rely on Alation to drive self-service analytics, cloud transformation, data governance, and AI innovation. Our technology helps enterprises connect people and data to make faster, smarter, and more confident decisions. With more than $340M in funding – valued at over $1.7 billion and more than 650 customers, including 40% of the Fortune 100.

As data becomes the foundation of every business, Alation is leading the way in helping organizations unlock their full potential. By bringing intelligence, automation, and trust to every interaction, we empower customers to scale data-driven innovation with confidence and speed.

Joining Alation means being part of a winning team shaping the future of AI-powered data intelligence. We move fast, think big, and deliver results together.

Job Description:

About the Role

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.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design and implement moderately complex features with minimal supervision

  • Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code that follows team best practices

  • Write and maintain unit, integration and end-end tests to deliver high quality code

  • Debug and troubleshoot issues efficiently, providing well-reasoned solutions

  • Implement and maintain unit and integration tests to ensure software quality

  • Contribute to system design discussions and provide input on architecture decisions

Required Qualifications

  • 2+ years of professional experience designing, developing, and shipping software products and/or n-tier services

  • Experience in any object-oriented language, preferably Golang, Python or Java

  • Experience working with AI Code assistants to create code, tests and review changes

  • Experience in working with micro-services

  • 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 Django REST framework

  • Experience with Airflow, Kafka

  • Experience in working with advanced SQL queries

  • Working experience in Kubernetes and/or Docker

  • Exposure to data modeling in RDBMS

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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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