What you'll do:
Design and own new user experiences that enable customers to gain insights
Work with our amazing product and design team to build a core product experience
Build the next generation of frameworks and solutions that simplify the complexity and enable the next level of scale
Design both internal and customer-facing APIs that are fast and flexible
Make smart scoping and priority decisions to ship fast, impactful code

What makes you great fit:
Have a CS degree and 3+ years of experience working as a software engineer
Have 2+ years of experience designing, developing, and shipping software products and services with a distributed backend
Have a good command of architectural conventions such as RESTful API design, concepts of algorithmic complexity
Experience in working with data at scale and exposure to building frameworks to solve integration problems is desired.
Strong software design and architecture skills with an eye toward avoiding and reducing technical debt
Hands-on experience independently building and shipping features
Worked with Relational Databases - Postgres is a plus!
Demonstrate clear leadership and communication skills
Are collaborative and measure your success through impact

About Alation
Alation, the data catalog company, is building a data-fluent world by changing the way people find, understand, trust, use, and reuse data. The first to bring a data catalog to market, Alation combines machine learning and human collaboration to bring confidence to data-driven decisions. More than 100 organizations, including eBay, Munich Re and Pfizer, leverage the Alation Data Catalog. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Alation is funded by Costanoa Ventures, Data Collective, Harmony Partners, and Icon Ventures. For more information, visit alation.com.
Company Type

Start-up

Website
http://www.alation.com
Company Size

50-200 Employees

Company Financials

Alation has raised a total of $82M in funding over 4 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Jan 17, 2019 from a Series C round. Alation i... read more

Office Locations

Redwood City, California, United States