Job Description

Verified Job On Employer Career Site 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)