Software Engineering Intern (Remote) at Jobright.ai

Job Description

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Job Summary:
Atlan is a pioneering company focused on transforming data chaos into clarity through its active metadata platform. They are seeking a Software Engineering Intern to work on backend engineering projects, including designing micro-services and building APIs, while gaining hands-on experience in a collaborative environment.

Responsibilities:
• Design and implement micro-services in Go, Python, or Node.js.
• Build APIs that power the data collaboration layer used by modern data teams at Nasdaq, Elastic, and WeWork.
• Work with SQL, Redis, object stores, and caching layers to build robust, low-latency systems.
• Extend Atlan’s data models and backend relationships to power new platform experiences.
• Build tooling for logging, tracing, and observability.
• Learn to troubleshoot distributed systems and proactively resolve performance issues in production environments.
• Own and ship scoped backend projects that directly impact customer experience, reliability, or developer velocity.
• Expect to present your work, collect feedback, and iterate like any other engineer at Atlan.
• Join design discussions, code reviews, standups, and retrospectives.
• Get hands-on mentorship, real ownership, and visibility into how scalable SaaS platforms are built and maintained.

Qualifications:

Required:
• Must be currently enrolled in or recently graduated from a Master’s program in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship for the internship period (CPT/OPT welcome).
• Available to commit full-time (30–40 hours/week) for 4 to 12 months.
• Must be based in the U.S. for the duration of the internship.
• Technical proficiency: Strong backend programming skills in Go, Python, Node.js, or Java.
• Data literacy: Familiarity with SQL, schema design, and cloud-native data flows.
• Debugging mindset: You love tracing logs, finding bottlenecks, and getting to root causes.
• Analytical thinking: You break complex problems into solvable parts.
• Intellectual curiosity: You ask ‘why’ and push to understand systems end-to-end.
• Attention to detail: You sweat the details, especially when writing code.
• Ownership: You take pride in getting things done, even when things get hard.
• Collaboration: You communicate clearly and work well across functions.

Preferred:
• Public contributions: Bonus points for GitHub projects, blogs, or OSS commits.

Company:
Atlan is an active metadata platform crafted for data teams that integrates metadata from diverse sources. Founded in 2018, the company is headquartered in Singapore, Central Region, SGP, with a team of 201-500 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.

Featured benefits

Medical insurance
Vision insurance
Dental insurance
401(k)