Staff Software Engineer ( Foundation Platform)

About the role

Atlan is building the missing context layer for data and AI, helping enterprises close the AI value chasm. Today, 95% of AI pilots fail because AI systems don't understand the context behind data: what it means, how it's governed, and how it should be used. Atlan connects to every part of the modern data and AI stack to unify this context into a single, shared layer that both humans and AI agents can rely on. With Atlan, teams can discover, understand, and trust their data; build and collaborate on a shared body of knowledge; and activate that context across analytics, operations, and AI workflows.Trusted by global enterprises like Mastercard, Workday, General Motors, Unilever, Ralph Lauren, FOX, Nasdaq, and Medtronic , we're backed by world-class investors including GIC, Insight Partners, Meritech, Peak XV, and Salesforce Ventures

Responsibilities

• As an engineer on the Foundation Platform team, you will be responsible for the production infrastructure that powers Atlan's context layer for AI across AWS, Azure, and GCP, using AI-assisted development tools (such as Claude Code and Cursor) as a natural part of your daily workflow.
• You will:
• Own and evolve our multi-tenant infrastructure on Kubernetes, including dedicated clusters per customer and the full tenant lifecycle (provisioning, scaling, migration, and offboarding).
• Make our GitOps deployments faster and safer by improving the ArgoCD and Helm based pipeline that deploys 1,000+ applications across hundreds of tenants.
• Replace manual infrastructure runbooks (for example, Kubernetes upgrades, Private Link setups, DR drills, cluster onboarding) with reliable automation using Infrastructure-as-Code and workflow engines.
• Strengthen observability and efficiency by improving our logging, metrics, and alerting stack and using it to drive better reliability, visibility, and meaningful cloud cost reduction.
• Lead customer-facing infrastructure work and incidents end to end, and turn what you learn into clear runbooks, dashboards, and Claude Skills that help both humans and AI agents operate the platform.
• What You Bring
• 7+ years in platform engineering, infrastructure, SRE, or backend systems at a SaaS company, with high ownership, strong written/async communication, and enthusiasm for AI-native development tools.
• Deep hands-on experience operating Kubernetes in production: managing clusters, upgrades, networking and RBAC, and multi-tenant concerns, not just deploying apps.
• Strong GitOps and Helm experience (for example ArgoCD or similar) at meaningful scale, including dealing with sync failures, drift, chart complexity, and improving deployment safety and speed.
• Production-quality infrastructure automation skills in Go or Python; familiarity with TypeScript is a plus.
• Solid cloud and Infrastructure-as-Code foundation: deep experience with at least one major cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure), and having designed, written, and reviewed substantial Terraform or Crossplane modules.
• Comfort debugging end to end across GitOps pipelines, Kubernetes, and cloud provider layers when deployments or tenants are stuck.
• What Great Looks Like:
• The ideal candidate:
• Can walk through a Kubernetes and GitOps platform they have built or significantly evolved, and how they improved deployment safety, speed, and operability for other teams.
• Has clear examples of turning manual runbooks into automation for workflows like upgrades, DR, or networking, and making these safe, repeatable, and well-documented.
• Uses observability and cost signals together to drive better reliability and meaningful cloud savings, and is confident owning customer-facing infrastructure and incidents end to end.
• Acts as a technical multiplier through thoughtful design docs, reviews, documentation, and tools or Claude Skills that reduce "how do I do X?" questions for the whole team.
• Why Atlan?
• Joining Atlan means being part of a global movement to help data teams do their life's best work. Here's what you can expect:
• Competitive Compensation: We benchmark at the top of the market and keep compensation simple: strong base salary, performance‑based variable pay, and impact‑driven equity (for most roles), so your total rewards grow in step with the value you create over time.
• AI Native Culture: Atlan is where AI-native builders come to build the systems the future of work wi

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