Software Engineer III

Overview

Independent contributor role owning business-critical components and services that power key use cases for Alation's customers, with high ownership and large business impact.

What you'll do

• 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
• Actively use AI coding assistants (e.g. Claude, GitHub Copilot, Cursor) to accelerate development, from scaffolding features and writing tests to reviewing code and debugging
• Leverage AI tools to iterate quickly, reduce boilerplate, and ship production-ready code at higher velocity
• Evaluate and critically review AI-generated code for correctness, security, and alignment with team standards before merging
• Debug and troubleshoot issues efficiently, providing well-reasoned solutions

What you'll need

• 5+ years of professional experience designing, developing, and shipping software products and/or n-tier services
• Proficiency in any object-oriented language, preferably Python
• Proficiency in front-end frameworks, preferably React and a language such as Typescript
• Demonstrated experience using AI coding assistants (e.g. GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, or similar) as a core part of your development workflow, for code generation, test writing, and code review
• Comfort working in an AI-augmented engineering environment where speed of delivery and quality are both expected to be high
• Ability to write precise, effective prompts and provide context to AI tools to get useful, production-quality outputs
• Experience in working with micro-services
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or similar

Nice to have

• Experience with Airflow
• Working experience in Kubernetes and/or Docker
• Exposure to data modeling in RDBMS