Senior Engineering Manager – Data Platform

Atlan Stormwater

Engineering Manager leading the design and evolution of AI-ready context store at Atlan. Responsible for building foundational systems that power enterprise data workflows.

Posted 6/10/2026full-timeRemote • 🇮🇳 IndiaSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed Systems

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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
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 and managers. 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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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
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. You don’t need to be an AI/ML expert, but you should be excited to build in this shift.
Systems thinker and people-first leader: You connect technical decisions to product strategy and org design, while prioritizing clarity, trust, and team growth.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive Compensation: We benchmark at the top of the market and keep compensation simple: strong base salary, performance‑based variable pay, and impact‑driven equity (for most roles), so your total rewards grow in step with the value you create over time.
AI Native Culture: Atlan is where AI-native builders come to build the systems the future of work will run on. AI isn’t an add-on, it’s woven into how we build, think, and work every day, empowering every Atlanian to move faster and create a bigger impact.
Health & Wellness: From Day‑1 health, dental, vision, and mental health to flexible health stipends, we design benefits offerings that lead in each country we're in.
Flexible Time Off & Leave Policies: We trust you to own your energy: flexible time off and modern leave so you can unplug properly, support yourself and your loved ones, and come back ready to drive an impact.
Accelerated Growth & Learning: Develop at an uncommon velocity through cutting-edge tech, complex implementations, and an experienced team that values mastery.
Global, Remote-First, High-Trust: Work from anywhere with a diverse team across 15+ countries, in a trust-first, async environment that gives you true flexibility and ownership over how you work.

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Hard Skills & Tools

data ingestion frameworksmetadata platformsgovernance platformscatalog platformsmulti-tenant SaaS infrastructuredistributed serving layersdata quality systemsvalidation systemscontract enforcement systemscloud-native architectures

Soft Skills

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