Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Remote, (Anywhere)

Full Time

At Atlan, one of our core values is putting the problem first and solution second. That’s why our folks in the Business Team come to work every morning with the intent of helping as many people as they can. Even if this means telling them that we’re not the right fit for them.

As part of our Business Team, you’ll be our eyes and ears on the ground—working to understand our users’ biggest challenges and wins—so we can integrate this information into our vision for our products. Every line of code we write and every pixel we create will be shaped by what you see and hear on a daily basis.

Let’s lead from the front and show the world how it’s done.

(Co-founders of Atlan)

Hello, we are Atlan! 👋

A home for data teams around the world. 🏠 Atlan makes it easier for diverse data users – business users, product managers, analysts, and engineers – to collaborate effectively. (Think of what Salesforce is for sales teams or GitHub for engineering teams). (Check out our website, product tour, and docs.)

Built for the humans of data, by the humans of data

At Atlan, we started as a data team ourselves tackling problems like national healthcare and poverty alleviation with data science. (Check out our TEDx talk and case studies.)

The problem: After working on 200+ data projects, we learned how tough it was to scale data teams. Data teams are one of the most interdisciplinary teams ever created. They're made up of analysts, data scientists, engineers, business users – diverse people with their own tooling preferences, skill sets, and "DNA" that need to come together. This leads to collaboration chaos.

We were awoken with crisis calls every second day for the minutest of issues — from troubleshooting why a number on a dashboard was incorrect to difficulties in getting access to the right data set! Atlan started with us building tools to make our own data team more agile.

These tools made our team 6x more agile, helping us take on amazing projects like building India's National Data Platform used by India's Prime Minister. The best part — this was built by an eight-member team, the fastest project of its kind to go live, in a record twelve months instead of the projected three years.

💡 We asked, could the tooling we built for ourselves help data teams around the world? That's how Atlan was born. We're on a mission to help data teams around the world do their lives' best work.

Read our co-founder Prukalpa's article on the half-a-decade backstory that drives everything we do at Atlan and our journey of failing three times before we figured out the real solution.

🚀 We're growing fast

In the last few months, we have onboarded some dream customers, started working with some amazing partners, and watched as our team spread across 10+ countries.

Atlan was named a Gartner Cool Vendor in DataOps, one of the top three companies globally (and one of the fastest companies to make the list 🌏). We were also named in Gartner’s inaugural Market Guide for Active Metadata and as a Top 5 Global Innovator in DataOps by IDC.

We're backed by top investors (like Insight Partners, Sequoia, and Waterbridge) and the shapers of the modern data stack (including the founders and CEOs of Snowflake, Looker, Stitch, and DataRobot) as our early investors. 🏅

Watch this three-minute video of our journey so far and where we're going (in conversation with Sequoia Capital).

We build with all our ❤️

We believe that data teams deserve fundamentally better software experiences. Data is chaos, but that doesn't mean that work should be! 🌟

Love what Superhuman, Slack, Notion, Quip, and Figma have done for the modern workplace? Come build the future for data teams with Atlan!

What will you do? 🤔

Take end-to-end responsibility of the backend for our products.
Plan for the future by clearly communicating the cost-benefit of a given solution and advocating the best path forward.
Understand and mitigate risk through robust analysis and testing.
Work closely with frontend developers, data engineers, and members of other internal teams to understand needs and develop solutions to the experience for our users.

What makes you a match for us? 😍

You are fluent in HTTP and have a knack for picking the right set of tools for the job at hand.
You are an expert in Python or Golang and have a desire to deepen your knowledge in current technologies as well as learn new ones.
You have a strong sense of customer empathy and desire to influence the product direction.
You can easily explain complex technical concepts to designers, customer success reps, and other engineers in no time.
You have a basic understanding of DevOps (log rotation, reverse proxies, and other activities that give reliability to the software in development).
You have an experience working in a startup environment, preferably with a SaaS product.
You love open source as much we do! Bonus points if you are an active contributor to the community (e.g. speak at conferences, meetups, etc).
You have an experience building a product from scratch or being in the initial backend team of any startup.

Working at Atlan 👨‍💻 👩‍💻

Do your life’s best work at Atlan 🚀

At Atlan, our mission is to help data teams do their life's best work. Inside Atlan, our goal is to help Atlanians do their life's best work while at Atlan and reach their Ikigai.

We'd normally invite potential Atlanians to our office to meet our team and understand our culture. But given the global pandemic, we've opened up our internal team handbook instead, which is a great read about our values and principles and how we think about growth and internal practices as we build a dream team.

Atlan Team Handbook

The Values of an Atlanian

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Shape the future of our products

As part of the Business Team, you play a pivotal role. You are the voice of our users and inform all the important decisions we make. You will work closely with our users and prospects to understand their pain points and feed this information into our product roadmap.

Not only have I been able to understand how the Product Team approaches creating a product, but I’ve also been able to share our customers’ feedback with the team, which directly influences product development. Here, your input can shape everything from the name of a product to the features it needs to have!
Kritika Oberoi
Founder's Staff
I'm the eyes and ears for the product team and give them a clear picture of our users’ feedback, their daily workflows, critical decisions, motivations and more. This helps us build a product that truly solves the problems faced by every human of data that we work with!
Aishwarya Bedekar
Partnerships Manager

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I've been astounded thus far with my experience at Atlan. Everyone is an A+ player, works hard, and believes in the common mission. What I love most is the reflective culture we have. Everyone is self-aware and highlights challenges as opposed to hiding them. Over-communication is paramount, even more so in a remote culture, and I think we do a great job of it.
Andrew Ermogenous
Partnerships Manager
A relentless focus on our core values is at the heart of everything that we do at Atlan. This helps build a strong culture in which professional growth is entwined with business growth, where everyone is committed to constant improvement. I have never met a single person at Atlan who just wants to leave things as they are — we are here to learn, get our hands dirty and push our boundaries!
Mathura Vaidyanathan
Bangalore, India
My first week here had me hit the ground running with speaking to customers, onboarding them, and taking complete ownership of their experience. In my role, I get to collaborate with almost all functions in Atlan and this excellent support system enables me to drive a great customer experience. Being a primary interface between customers and the product team and playing a pivotal role in the growth of the product is both rewarding and fulfilling!
Ashwin Murali
Bangalore, India
From day one, I have been under GREAT mentors who worked hard to upgrade my knowledge and skills. I came from a different work background and yet they were patient with me, while at the same time they recognized my achievements. The people here are so motivated and dedicated, it's contagious! I've never worked for a company that's more welcoming and nurturing as Atlan.
Ma. Isabel Yonzon-Atienza
Manila, Philippines

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Ownership and autonomy from day one

At Atlan, business is all about putting the user first and addressing their needs. So the way your set your goals will be informed by the unique challenges that you need to solve. That’s why you have complete ownership of your projects—you set the priorities, decide on the experiments, and the best way to reach your goals.

Working at Atlan has been one for the books. Waking up every day to the challenge of building the Africa business pipeline has forced me to grow both personally and professionally more ways than I ever imagined. I have naturally grown to approach and tackle challenges differently as well as selectively choose my priorities to maximize my energy.
Quinta Onditi
Consultant
At Atlan, I’ve always been encouraged to take full ownership of my projects from the first day itself. It is Atlan that I’ve got the opportunity to try various experiments to take our product across geographies and industries. Where else would I get so much freedom to experiment and manage my work.
Ujwal Chaudhari
Sales Executive

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