Software Engineer - Full Stack (Contractor)

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:

At Alation, we're not just about data; we are about fueling curiosity and empowering individuals to make informed decisions. In a world full of questions, we go beyond providing answers — we help people explore, understand, and use data effectively.
We are passionate about helping enterprises create thriving data cultures where anyone can find, understand, and trust data. Alation pioneered the modern data catalog and is now leading its evolution into a platform for data intelligence.
About the Role
This role is an independent contributor role forming one of the key pillars of the team. You will have the 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

• 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.

• Maintain and improve development best practices, code quality, and testing strategies.

• Enhance automation by reducing execution time for faster feedback and reliable regression detection.

• Identify technical risks and propose mitigation strategies.

• Contribute to architectural discussions and provide input to ensure technical clarity across the team.

​Required Qualifications

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

• Proficiency in any object-oriented language, preferably Python.

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

• Experience in TypeScript and React.

• Experience in developing, deploying, maintaining 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 Airflow

• 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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