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About the Role

Independent contributor role who is one of the pillars of the team. Chance 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 skilled 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 practical, 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

📌 Software Engineer Iii Chennai
🏢 Alation
📍 Chennai