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Atlan is building the context layer for enterprise AI—infrastructure that connects business context to data so AI agents and applications can operate with accuracy and confidence. The company serves AI-forward enterprises like General Motors, Nasdaq, Workday, and Elastic, backed by investors including GIC, Insight Partners, Meritech, Peak XV, and Salesforce Ventures.
As Principal Software Engineer - Platform, you will architect and scale foundational data plane systems handling billions of assets, serving 100K+ users with 99.99% availability targets. This is a high-agency role defining technical direction and driving multi-quarter initiatives.
Key responsibilities include: designing and building platform services (APIs, infrastructure components, runtime systems, ingestion frameworks) at enterprise scale; architecting the context store that transforms lakehouse infrastructure into AI-ready systems with multimodal capabilities (structured, unstructured, vector, graph); solving multi-tenant isolation and scaling problems for enterprise SaaS; designing data contracts governing ingestion, validation, processing, routing, storage, and serving; owning critical shared infrastructure including lakehouse (Iceberg/Polaris), vector stores, graph databases, and OLTP systems; driving technical standards through RFCs and architecture reviews; mentoring senior engineers; writing production code with AI-assisted tools (Claude Code, Cursor); and debugging distributed systems issues across Kubernetes, workflow orchestration, and microservices.
Required: 10+ years in platform engineering, infrastructure, or backend systems at a SaaS company; experience building enterprise-scale distributed systems; deep expertise in multi-tenant architectures and tenant isolation; strong Kubernetes, containerization, and cloud infrastructure skills (AWS/GCP/Azure); hands-on experience with distributed systems patterns (service mesh, event-driven architecture, orchestration); track record of driving multi-quarter technical initiatives from concept through production.
Strong to have: experience designing contract-driven or schema-first data platforms; familiarity with Temporal or similar workflow orchestration; data quality frameworks and observability systems at scale; experience supporting enterprise workloads with strict compliance requirements; CI/CD pipeline design and GitOps practices.
You embrace AI-native development, have high agency, communicate asynchronously, and act as a force multiplier. Atlan offers competitive compensation (base, variable, equity), health/wellness benefits, flexible time off, accelerated growth opportunities, and a global, remote-first, high-trust culture across 15+ countries.
