Software Engineer Intern

 🚀 Join Atlan’s Engineering Internship – Build, Scale & Innovate!

At Atlan, we're looking for passionate problem-solvers eager to take on big challenges. If you love building, learning, and pushing boundaries, this is your chance to work on real-world problems alongside a talented and driven engineering team.

We’re seeking candidates who have demonstrated their skills—whether through courses, open-source contributions, prior internships, or personal projects. At Atlan, interns don’t just learn—they build, innovate, and own impactful projects that shape the future of data and AI.

Platform Engineering Internship

🤖 AI-Powered Observability – Work on AI-driven solutions that analyze billions of data points to detect and resolve issues in large-scale systems. Help solve some of the biggest challenges in monitoring and reliability.

💰 Optimizing Cloud Costs & Performance – Learn how to track, analyze, and optimize cloud usage, helping Atlan build efficient and cost-effective cloud infrastructure.

🚀 Building Scalable Deployment Pipelines – Work on high-performance automation and release systems, helping engineers ship features faster and more reliably. Design solutions that can handle hundreds of deployments per day without breaking a sweat.

Frontend Engineering Internship

🧑‍🎨 Human-Centered Design - Work on building and obsessively optimising interfaces that enable the humans of data & AI to effortlessly access business-critical knowledge.

⚡  Pursue Performance Perfection - Craft lightning-fast experiences and pursue milli-second-latency-shaving missions in a bid to build a turbo-charged data catalog for the world's largest enterprises.

🚀 Furiously Futuristic - Learn not just how to leverage cutting-edge software stacks but also how to build them in-house in the form of eclectic design systems, blazing-fast SDKs, and infinitely scalable config-driven interfaces.

🔄 Backend Synergy - Work closely with our petabyte-juggling backend teams to integrate APIs and sockets, ensuring smoother-than-butter data flows.

📢 Ayush Rathore, a current engineering intern at Atlan, shares three key lessons from his internship. Check them out here: My Engineering Internship Journey

About Altan

We started out as a data team ourselves and worked across large-scale data projects for 200 organizations, including the United Nations' SDGs National Data Platforms.

Today, Atlan is the next-generation platform for data and AI governance. It is a control plane that stitches together a business's disparate data infrastructure, cataloging data and enriching it with business context and security.

Data practitioners spend 30-50% of their time finding and understanding data; Atlan's platform cuts that time by 95% and sets a new standard for modern data governance and AI readiness. With Atlan, data and business teams can easily find, trust, and govern AI-ready data.

Backed by top investors including GIC, Insight Partners, Sequoia Capital India, and Salesforce Ventures, Atlan features deep integrations across the modern data stack and is trusted by the likes of Cisco, Autodesk, Unilever, Ralph Lauren, FOX, News Corp, Nasdaq, NextGen, Plaid, and HubSpot to enable major AI and data democratization initiatives.

More about Atlan

• Online Application: Candidates MUST apply through our careers page.
• Applications Open: 21st February 2025.
• Applications Close: 7th March 2025.
• Application Review: Our team will assess your application to determine if you're a good fit.
• Online Test: A test link will be shared with shortlisted candidates after the application review.
• Take-Home Challenge: Based on your test performance, you'll work on a take-home task designed to evaluate your problem-solving abilities and creativity.
• Interview: Engage in a comprehensive interview to explore your fit with our culture, values, and the role. You'll be informed in real time when your interview is scheduled.
• Offer: Receive the internship offer.
• Internship Start Date: 2nd June 2025.

• Onboarding Week (In-Person): 2nd June 2025 – 6th June 2025.
• Location: Delhi or Bangalore (to be confirmed closer to the date).
• Covered Expenses: Atlan will cover your stay and travel expenses for the onboarding week.
• Internship Duration: 6 months (paid, full-time).
• Work Mode: Fully remote after the onboarding week—work from anywhere!
• Future Opportunities: Potential to transition into a full-time role at Atlan.

• Students currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Engineering in India who can commit to full-time internship.
• Major or concentration in Computer Science or a closely related field.
• You must commit for the one-week in-person onboarding and 6 months of fully remote full-time internship.
• Demonstrate dedication to the internship.
• Show passion and drive to succeed in the tech industry (assessed via application questions and program interviews).

• Learn from experts with decades of experience. Understand customer needs, market dynamics, and what drives success.

• Platform Engineering Internship -
• 🤖 AI-Powered Observability – Work on AI-driven solutions that analyze billions of data points to detect and resolve issues in large-scale systems. Help solve some of the biggest challenges in monitoring and reliability.
• 💰Optimizing Cloud Costs & Performance – Learn how to track, analyze, and optimize cloud usage, helping Atlan build efficient and cost-effective cloud infrastructure.
• 🚀 Building Scalable Deployment Pipelines – Work on high-performance automation and release systems, helping engineers ship features faster and more reliably. Design solutions that can handle hundreds of deployments per day without breaking a sweat.

• Frontend Engineering Internship -
• 🧑‍🎨 Human-Centered Design - Work on building and obsessively optimising interfaces that enable the humans of data & AI to effortlessly access business-critical knowledge.
• ⚡  Pursue Performance Perfection - Craft lightning-fast experiences and pursue milli-second-latency-shaving missions in a bid to build a turbo-charged data catalog for the world's largest enterprises.
• 🚀 Furiously Futuristic - Learn not just how to leverage cutting-edge software stacks but also how to build them in-house in the form of eclectic design systems, blazing-fast SDKs, and infinitely scalable config-driven interfaces.
• 🔄 Backend Synergy - Work closely with our petabyte-juggling backend teams to integrate APIs and sockets, ensuring smoother-than-butter data flows.

• Passion for problem-solving: Enthusiastic individuals ready to solve real-world pain points for data teams immediately.
• Technical proficiency: For the Frontend Intern role, experience with TypeScript and React is preferred. For the Platform Intern role, familiarity with Kubernetes, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), Jenkins, Datadog, Grafana, ClickHouse, VictoriaMetrics, and Elasticsearch is a plus.
• Teamwork and leadership: Excellent teamwork and demonstrated leadership abilities are essential as our teams thrive on collaboration.
• Public contributions: Showcase your coding abilities through contributions to public projects, evidenced by an active GitHub profile.
• Analytical thinking: Exceptional problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Intellectual curiosity: A collaborative spirit, openness to new challenges, and a willingness to take ownership of projects.
• Attention to detail: A keen eye for detail to ensure accuracy and quality in your work.
• Communication skills: Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Self-motivation: Results-oriented and self-driven individuals.
• Cross-functional interaction: Ability to interact effectively with cross-functional teams.

Working at Atlan 👨‍💻 👩‍💻

- [We love open-source. One of our open-source projects was trending worldwide on GitHub.](https://github.com/atlanhq)

- [Read about our 10 engineering commandments](https://blog.atlan.com/team/engineering-commandments/)

- [The why, what, and who of internships at Atlan](https://blog.atlan.com/team/internships-why-what-who/)

- [Engineering demos: How we share knowledge and build better engineering culture](https://blog.atlan.com/team/engineering-demos-knowledge/)

- [Going from great people to greater teams: How we think about growth at Atlan](https://blog.atlan.com/team/growth-people-teams/)

Do your life’s best work at Atlan 🚀

At Atlan, our mission is to help data teams do their life's best work. Inside Atlan, our goal is to help Atlanians do their life's best work while at Atlan and reach their Ikigai.

We'd normally invite potential Atlanians to our office to meet our team and understand our culture. But given the global pandemic, we've opened up our internal team handbook instead, which is a great read about our values and principles and how we think about growth and internal practices as we build a dream team.

Atlan Team Handbook

The Values of an Atlanian