Software Engineer III

An 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.
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.
Requirements:
5+ years of professional experience designing, developing, and shipping software products and/or n-tier services.
Proficiency in any object-oriented language, preferably Golang, Python, or Java.
Experience in developing, deploying, and maintaining micro-services.
Experience working with AI Code assistants to create code, tests, and review changes.
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, Kafka.
Working experience in Kubernetes and/or Docker.
Exposure to data modeling in RDBMS.

Experience
5-9 yrs