Software Engineer III

Alation
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Job Description:

About the Role

Independent contributor role who is one of the pillars of the team. 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.

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 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

A Big Plus

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

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