Staff Software Engineer (Foundation Platform)

About the Role: Atlan is building the missing context layer for data and AI. 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 as a natural part of your daily workflow.

What You'll Do

• Own and evolve our multi-tenant infrastructure on Kubernetes, including full tenant lifecycle management.
• Make GitOps deployments faster and safer by improving the ArgoCD and Helm based pipeline.
• Replace manual infrastructure runbooks with reliable automation using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/Crossplane) and workflow engines.
• Strengthen observability and efficiency by improving the logging, metrics, and alerting stack to drive reliability and cloud cost reduction.
• Lead customer-facing infrastructure work and incidents end to end, turning learnings into clear runbooks and dashboards.

What You Bring

• 7+ years in platform engineering, infrastructure, SRE, or backend systems at a SaaS company.
• Deep hands-on experience operating Kubernetes in production (managing clusters, networking, multi-tenant concerns).
• Strong GitOps and Helm experience (ArgoCD or similar) at a meaningful scale.
• Production-quality infrastructure automation skills in Go or Python.
• Solid cloud foundation with deep experience in at least one major cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure).

Benefits

• Competitive base salary, performance‑based variable pay, and impact‑driven equity.
• Comprehensive Day-1 health, dental, vision, and mental health benefits with flexible health stipends.
• Flexible time off and modern leave policies so you can unplug properly.
• Work from anywhere with a diverse, global team in a remote-first, high-trust, async environment.