Backend Engineering Intern

About Atlan

Data is at the core of modern business, yet many teams struggle with its overwhelming volume and complexity. At Atlan, we’re changing that. As the world’s first active metadata platform, we help organisations transform data chaos into clarity and seamless collaboration.

From Fortune 500 leaders to hyper-growth startups, from automotive innovators redefining mobility to healthcare organisations saving lives, and from Wall Street powerhouses to Silicon Valley trailblazers — we empower ambitious teams across industries to unlock the full potential of their data.

Recognised as leaders by Gartner and Forrester and backed by Insight Partners, Atlan is at the forefront of reimagining how humans and data work together. Joining us means becoming part of a movement to shape a future where data drives extraordinary outcomes.

Why this internship?

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 especially excited about AI-native builders — those who already use AI tools in their daily development for coding, debugging, testing, or learning new technologies.

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

What makes this special

As a Backend Engineering Intern at Atlan you’ll learn from experienced engineers, get close to customer needs and market dynamics, and build AI native systems where AI is a core part of the product and user experience.

You will contribute to our app framework that lets developers build on Atlan, develop high-performance connectors across the modern data ecosystem, strengthen our core Metastore and next-generation Metadata Lakehouse built on Apache Iceberg, or tackle platform and infrastructure work such as service isolation, operator rollouts, backups, observability, and automated maintenance.

What you’ll do as an intern at Atlan?

• Learn from experts with decades of experience.
• Understand customer needs, market dynamics, and what drives success.
• Get a chance to build AI-native systems and experiences — leveraging AI not just as a feature, but as a core part of how our product works and how users interact with it.

As a Backend Engineering Intern, you’ll get the opportunity to work on one (or more) of these focus areas:

App Framework

• Contribute to Atlan’s latest app framework, enabling developers to build powerful, scalable apps directly on top of Atlan’s platform, accelerating how customers extend and customize Atlan.

Connector Development

• Build and scale the connectors that expand Atlan’s reach across the modern data ecosystem, deepening integrations, boosting performance, and enabling seamless data flow between systems.

Metastore

• Contribute to one of Atlan’s most critical microservices: our Metastore, a metadata management system that houses all the metadata ingested into Atlan. It powers both our platform and product, serving as the backbone for how teams discover, govern, and collaborate on Atlan.

Metadata Lakehouse

• Help build Atlan’s next-generation metastore, designed for the future. The Metadata Lakehouse brings modern data lake/warehouse architectures, Apache Iceberg, and high-performance metadata systems together to scale with the evolving needs of data and AI teams.

Platform & Infrastructure

• Work on the foundation that keeps Atlan running smoothly, including our Metastore and Metadata Lakehouse infrastructure. Tackle challenges like service isolation, operator rollouts, backup systems, observability, and automated maintenance workflows to ensure our