Principal Software Engineer - Platform

Atlan is hiring a Principal Software Engineer - Platform in India.

Responsibilities

• Design and build platform services - APIs, infrastructure components, runtime systems, and ingestion frameworks at enterprise scale

• Architect the context store that transforms lakehouse infrastructure into AI-ready systems with multimodal capabilities (structured, unstructured, vector, graph)

• Solve complex multi-tenant isolation and scaling problems for enterprise SaaS

• Design data contracts governing ingestion, validation, processing, routing, storage, and serving across heterogeneous systems

• Own critical shared infrastructure including lakehouse (Iceberg/Polaris), vector stores, graph databases, and OLTP systems

• Drive technical standards through RFCs, architecture reviews, and documentation

• Mentor senior engineers and influence architecture decisions across teams

• Write production code using AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, Cursor)

• Debug distributed systems issues across Kubernetes, workflow orchestration, and microservices

What makes you a match? 😍

Requirements

• 10+ years in platform engineering, infrastructure, or backend systems at a SaaS company

• Experience building enterprise-scale distributed systems at scale

• Deep expertise in multi-tenant architectures and tenant isolation strategies

• 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 at scale

Strong to Have

• Experience designing contract-driven or schema-first data platforms

• Familiarity with Temporal or similar workflow orchestration systems

• Data quality frameworks, observability systems, and cost attribution at scale

• Experience supporting enterprise workloads with strict compliance requirements

• CI/CD pipeline design and GitOps practices

• You embrace AI-native development and want to pioneer new engineering workflows

• You have high agency and take ownership of ambiguous problems

• You're a strong async communicator who can influence without authority

• You're comfortable with fast-changing priorities in a scale-up environment

About Atlan

Atlan is building the context layer for enterprise AI. Enterprises are pouring money into AI and most of it dies in production because the AI does not understand the business context around the data. That is the problem Atlan solves. Gartner has named context the defining issue in enterprise AI, and calls context graphs the essential infrastructure for AI agents, naming Atlan one of three vendors already building it. We are also the only vendor named a Leader across all four major Gartner and Fo