Senior Engineering Manager - Data Platform

Who We Are

Atlan is building the context layer for enterprise AI. Enterprises are pouring money into AI and most of it dies in production because the AI does not understand the business context around the data. That is the problem Atlan solves.

Gartner has named context the defining issue in enterprise AI, and calls context graphs the essential infrastructure for AI agents, naming Atlan one of three vendors already building it. We are also the only vendor named a Leader across all four major Gartner and Forrester evaluations for data catalogs, data governance and metadata management, the foundation the context layer runs on.

Come build the infrastructure that AI runs on.

The Opportunity

Atlan is building the context layer for the AI era, the control plane that makes enterprise data usable, governed, extensible, and AI-ready.

We're looking for an Engineering Manager to join one of our core platform teams. This is not a coordination role. We need an engineer-first, hands-on platform leader who has built and owned foundational systems at scale, whether that's distributed platform primitives and ingestion infrastructure, or data quality systems and AI-native product surfaces that sit on top of them.

What will you do?

Build the AI-ready context foundation

Lead the engineering charter to design and evolve an AI-ready context store across structured, unstructured, vector, and graph systems. This platform powers apps, agents, and enterprise workflows on top of trusted data.

Own core platform primitives

Drive end-to-end delivery of complex platform capabilities, including:

• High-scale ingestion and validation frameworks
• Contract-driven routing, storage, and serving layers
• Multi-tenant isolation and noisy-neighbor resilience
• Search APIs with sub-second P95 response times
• Systems operating at 99.99% availability

You’ll simplify ambiguous problems, define clear technical direction, and ensure teams ship durable, high-leverage infrastructure.

Lead from the front

Engage deeply in architecture and systems design. Guide distributed systems tradeoffs, review RFCs, unblock critical issues, and participate meaningfully in technical decisions. This role requires technical depth, not just coordination.

Scale teams and operational excellence

Build and mentor high-performing engineers. Define engineering metrics, on-call practices, SLO discipline, and incident processes. Strengthen the operational engine behind a platform serving 100K+ users and billions of assets.

What makes you a great match for us?

Experience building data or platform primitives at scale

You’ve built or owned foundational systems such as:

• Data ingestion frameworks or lakehouse foundations
• Metadata, governance, or catalog platforms
• Multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure and tenant isolation mechanisms
• Search, storage, or distributed serving layers
• Data quality, validation, or contract enforcement systems

We’re particularly excited about leaders who have operated in data platform environments but equally value those who have built core platforms and shared infrastructure powering enterprise SaaS systems.

Platform leadership experience

You’ve led and scaled engineering teams (including managing managers), ideally within platform, infrastructure, or data-heavy SaaS organizations.

Strong distributed systems and reliability depth

You bring credibility in distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and operating high-availability platforms with strict SLOs.

Builder mindset with high agency

You thrive in ambiguity, move fast with ownership, and build foundational systems from first principles. You’re comfortable operating in evolving environments and shaping direction, not just executing on defined scope.

AI-native curiosity

You actively explore AI-assisted development workflows and think critically about how agentic systems will reshape developer productivity and platform design.

Systems thinker and people-first leader

You connect technical decisions to product strategy and org design, while prioritizing clarity, trust, and team growth.

Why Atlan?

• Competitive Compensation: Strong base salary, performance-based variable pay, and impact-driven equity.
• AI Native Culture: Woven into how we build, think, and work every day.
• Health & Wellness: Comprehensive health, dental, vision, and mental health support.
• Flexible Time Off: Flexible time off and modern leave policies.
• Accelerated Growth & Learning: Cutting-edge tech and complex implementations.
• Global, Remote-First, High-Trust: Async environment across 15+ countries.