Principal Software Engineer - Platform

Ovii's Interpretation of the Role

Atlan seeks a Principal Software Engineer to own and scale its AI‑native data platform. The role drives architecture, builds core services, and mentors engineers while delivering enterprise‑scale, highly available infrastructure.

Role Snapshot

• Principal Platform Engineer
• Remote (India)
• Full‑Time
• AI‑native infrastructure
• Enterprise‑scale data platform

Must-Have Requirements

• 10+ years platform engineering, infrastructure, or backend systems at a SaaS company
• Enterprise‑scale distributed systems design
• Multi‑tenant architecture and isolation
• Kubernetes and container orchestration
• AWS/GCP/Azure cloud infrastructure
• Service mesh and event‑driven architecture patterns
• platform engineering
• enterprise‑scale distributed systems

Nice-to-Have Signals

• Contract‑driven or schema‑first data platform design
• Temporal or similar workflow orchestration
• Data quality, observability, and cost‑attribution frameworks
• Compliance‑focused enterprise workload support
• CI/CD pipeline design and GitOps practices
• AI‑assisted development tools (Claude Code, Cursor)
• contract‑driven data platforms
• workflow orchestration

Work Setup

• Location: India
• Work mode: REMOTE
• Remote scope: COUNTRY_RESTRICTED
• Remote countries: India
• Employment type: Full-Time

Not Specified in JD

• Salary range
• Visa sponsorship
• Relocation
• Notice period
• Coding test

What You'll Likely Work On

• Design and build platform services, APIs, runtime systems, and ingestion frameworks at enterprise scale
• Architect a multimodal context store that supports structured, unstructured, vector, and graph data
• Solve multi‑tenant isolation and scaling challenges for a SaaS product
• Define data contracts for ingestion, validation, processing, routing, storage, and serving
• Own shared infrastructure components such as lakehouse (Iceberg/Polaris), vector stores, graph databases, and OLTP systems
• Establish technical standards through RFCs, architecture reviews, and documentation
• Mentor senior engineers and influence architecture decisions across multiple teams
• Debug distributed‑system issues across Kubernetes, workflow orchestration, and microservices

Good Fit If You Have

• Enjoys AI‑native development and pioneering new engineering workflows
• Thrives in high‑agency, ambiguous problem spaces
• Strong async communicator who can influence without direct authority