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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 of three vendors already building it. We are also the 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.
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 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.
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.
Drive end-to-end delivery of complex platform capabilities, including:
You’ll simplify ambiguous problems, define clear technical direction, and ensure teams ship durable, high-leverage infrastructure.
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.
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.
You’ve built or owned foundational systems such as:
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.
You’ve led and scaled engineering teams (including managing managers), ideally within platform, infrastructure, or data-heavy SaaS organizations.
You bring credibility in distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and operating high-availability platforms with strict SLOs.
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.
You actively explore AI-assisted development workflows and think critically about how agentic systems will reshape developer productivity and platform design. You don’t need to be an AI/ML expert, but you should be excited to build in this shift.
You connect technical decisions to product strategy and org design, while prioritizing clarity, trust, and team growth.
This is foundational work in building a world class data platform, not feature delivery.
You’ll help define how enterprise data becomes the context layer for AI systems. High leverage. Deep technical ownership. Real scale.
Joining Atlan means being part of a global movement to help data teams do their life’s best work. Here’s what you can expect:
Atlan is building the shared context layer that enterprises need so AI can operate on trusted, governed context. The conversation has moved from data leaders asking: “Can we trust the data in our stack?” to businesses asking: “Can we trust AI inside the business?”
We are the missing infrastructure for businesses becoming AI-forward - the connective tissue between their data stack, operational systems, and AI agents.
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