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 organizations transform data chaos into clarity and seamless collaboration.
From Fortune 500 leaders to hyper-growth startups, from automotive innovators redefining mobility to healthcare organizations 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.
Recognized 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.
What will you do? 🤔
- As a Principal Engineer - Platform, you will:
- Define the technical vision for Atlan’s platform, driving the architecture and strategy for scalable, secure, and high-performing enterprise customers across industries like financial services and healthcare.
- Tackle complex challenges in metadata management, distributed systems, and large-scale data processing to deliver innovative solutions.
- Architect and implement solutions like a large-scale metadata graph, OLAP-ready lakehouse, and vector capabilities.
- Own and deliver on the major business outcomes for the Atlan Platform.
- Lead technical initiatives to enhance observability, optimize costs, and strengthen system security and compliance.
- Collaborate with globally distributed teams and mentor engineers to cultivate excellence.
- Serve as a technical thought leader, advocating for best practices in engineering and contributing to Atlan’s technical community.
What makes you a match? 😍
- 12+ years of experience in solving challenging problems at scale, especially in metadata management and distributed computing.
- You are proficient in Go or Java, and you write clean, well-documented code that stands the test of time.
- You have experience managing Kubernetes clusters and ensuring enterprise-grade security across cloud platforms like AWS, Azure or GCP.
- You excel at API design and management for large-scale platforms.
- You embrace a cost and security-first mindset, always looking for ways to optimize and secure systems.
- You’re passionate about working on industry-leading innovations, such as building the world’s largest metadata graph.
- You value transparency and accountability, thriving in a culture of rapid iteration, timely feedback, and a build fast-fail fast approach.
- You’re a collaborative team player who thrives in globally distributed teams and values customer-first problem solving.
Why Atlan 👨💻 👩💻
At Atlan, we believe the future belongs to the humans of data. From curing diseases to advancing space exploration, data teams are powering humanity's greatest achievements. Yet, working with data can be chaotic—our mission is to transform that experience. We're reimagining how data teams collaborate by building the home they deserve, enabling them to create winning data cultures and drive meaningful progress.
Joining Atlan means:
- Ownership from Day One: Whether you're an intern or a full-time teammate, you’ll own impactful projects, chart your growth, and
collaborate with some of the best minds in the industry.
- Limitless Opportunities: At Atlan, your growth has no boundaries. If you’re ready to take initiative, the sky’s the limit.
- A Global Data Community: We’re deeply embedded in the modern data stack, contributing to open-source projects, sponsoring meetups, and empowering team members to grow through conferences and learning opportunities.
As a fast-growing, fully remote company trusted by global leaders like Cisco, Nasdaq, and HubSpot, we’re creating a category-defining platform for data and AI governance. Backed by top investors, we’ve achieved 7X revenue growth in two years and are building a talented team spanning 10+ countries.
If you’re ready to do your life’s best work and help shape the future of data collaboration, join Atlan and become part of a mission to empower the humans of data to achieve more, together.
What We Do
Built by a data team for data teams, Atlan is the active metadata platform for the modern data stack. It stitches together metadata from various sources (Snowflake, dbt, Databricks, Looker, Tableau, Postgres, etc.) to create a unified data discovery, cataloging, lineage, and governance experience across all your data assets, from columns and queries to metrics and dashboards. Atlan facilitates a two-way movement of metadata, bringing context back into the tools and workflows that your data team uses every day — for example, in your BI tool when you wonder what a metric on the dashboard means.
A pioneer in the space, Atlan was named a Leader in Forrester Wave™️: Enterprise Data Catalogs for DataOps in 2022 and was recognized by Gartner seven times in 2021, including as a Cool Vendor in DataOps and in the inaugural Market Guide for Active Metadata Management. Today, we power pioneering data teams like WeWork, Plaid, Postman, Unilever, and Ralph Lauren. We recently raised a Series B, backed by top investors (including Insight Partners, Sequoia, and Salesforce Ventures) and founders & CEOs from the modern data stack (including Snowflake, Looker, and Stitch).
For more information, visit http://www.atlan.com/ or follow us on Twitter at AtlanHQ.
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