Senior Software Engineer, Alation
$191.5-220k
Enterprise data intelligence solutions
Job no longer available
Enterprise data intelligence solutions
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$191.5-220k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help businesses and institutions to get better value from their data, improving outreach and profit by combining human potential with modern data intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
- 6+ years of experience designing, developing, and shipping software products and services
- Expert proficiency in Python or Java
- Proficiency in data modeling for RDBMS or NoSql data systems
- Desire to dive into details of complex code that runs at scale via an on-prem delivery model
- Ability to translate business requirements and “user needs” into code – experience owning projects or features from planning to release is a plus
- Readiness for adaptable and fast-paced, evolving, growing, and dynamic environment
- Advanced understanding/experience with OOP in Python or Java
- Understanding of the following are major pluses
- Elasticsearch
- AWS infrastructure
- Familiarity with LLMs
What the job involves
- The Search Team delivers consumer-facing data insights in the Alation Data Catalog by working on our best-in-class search engine
- We are working on bleeding-edge solutions as we integrate machine-learning technologies into our current architecture
- Our architecture encompasses the concerns of dealing with big data problems while attaining near real-time performance
- While doing this, we cooperate closely with the Product Team and our customers to ensure a first-class experience
- Research and design solutions that best-fit customer needs
- Work closely and mentor other team members to drive innovative solutions
- Design internal and customer-facing APIs that are fast, flexible and reliable
- Collaborate with our product design team to provide the highest quality user experience
- Make smart scoping and priority decisions to ship fast, impactful code
- Work directly with users to integrate feedback into our designs and priorities
- Work on and own code that spans both frontend and backend systems
- Build and maintain a secure, scalable, high-performance, and fault-tolerant distributed systems
Our take
While companies continue to gather huge volumes of data on customer behavior, efforts in leveraging said data are often hindered by data access and interpretation, which ultimately leads to incomplete datasets.
Alation is a machine learning powered data catalog. It pulls together all a company’s key data from popular sources like Oracle, Spark and Tableau, and presents it on its platform. This means that users can search for multiple strands of data on just one API. Its services include data governance, digital transformation, and data discovery.
With both the data catalog and data analytics market growing rapidly at a 25% annual growth rate, Alation finds itself in a very strong position having shown triple digit growth for four years running. The platform is used for diverse purposes by Pfizer, FinnAir, Pepsico, Salesforce, American Express and BMW.
It’s this range of applicability, from weather-induced flight delay prediction to rare disease identification, that has led to investments resulting in a valuation of $1.7B. Though it's not the only company of its ilk on the market, with the likes of Informatica, Aginity and Alteryx all competing, Alation’s rapid year-on-year growth, solid investment from the likes of Japanese data communications leader NTT DOCOMO and an elite customer base bodes well for the company's future.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Nov 2022
$123m
SERIES E
Jun 2021
$110m
SERIES D
Total funding: $315m
Company benefits
- Health and Wellness: health insurance; dental insurance; vision insurance; life insurance; short-term disability; long-term disability; wellness program; FSA account; HSA account; fitness subsidies
- Vacation and Time Off: paid vacation; paid holidays; personal/sick days; maternity leave; leave of absence
- Financial and Retirement: 401(k); company equity; performance bonus
- Professional Development: promote from within; lunch and learns
- Office Life: flexible work hours; remote work opportunities; commuter benefits program; casual dress; happy hours; snacks; some meals provided; company outings
Company values
- Move the ball - We take small steps in the present to make it to the future we’re seeking
- Build for the long term - We plan to fulfill a bold, ambitious mission over decades to come
- Listen like you're wrong - Data and insight are most valuable when they surprise us and prove us wrong
- Measure through customer impact - We measure ourselves by the impact we achieve, not the benefits we receive
Company HQ
Redwood Shores, Redwood City, CA
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Leadership
Satyen Sangani
(CEO)Having studied at Columbia, they worked at Morgan Stanley, Texas Pacific Group, and Andale, before an MSc at Oxford. They then worked as a VP at Oracle for over 9 years prior to co-founding Alation in July 2012.
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