Director of Infrastructure

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 organisations transform data chaos into clarity and seamless collaboration.

From Fortune 500 leaders to hyper-growth startups, from automotive innovators redefining mobility to healthcare organisations 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.

Recognised 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.

Infrastructure Services is the bedrock of the Atlan platform. Every service, workflow, application, and AI agent ultimately runs on the primitives this layer provides.

As a Director of Infrastructure, you will own where the platform runs, how it scales, how it stays secure, and how reliably it operates across tenants, regions, and deployment environments.

This is not a support role.This is a platform ownership role with end-to-end responsibility for Atlan’s infrastructure foundations and the authority to evolve them over time.

What You’ll Own

Platform Foundations
You will own the core infrastructure primitives that power Atlan and define the contracts they expose to the rest of engineering.

Compute and Orchestration

• Own how workloads run, scale, and are isolated across the platform

• Define execution environments for services, batch jobs, and workflows

• Set policies for placement, autoscaling, and portability across environments

Networking and Connectivity

• Own the network fabric that connects services securely and reliably

• Define patterns for service-to-service communication, ingress/egress, and tenant isolation

• Enable secure connectivity across regions and customer environments

Storage and Data Infrastructure

• Own durable, performant, and cost-efficient storage foundations

• Define region-aware storage, data residency, and lifecycle strategies

• Balance durability, access patterns, and operational simplicity

Secrets, Keys, and Identity Primitives

• Own infrastructure-level security primitives

• Define how secrets, encryption, and workload identity are managed and enforced

• Establish roots of trust that other platform layers build on

• You will continuously evolve these foundations — challenging assumptions and raising the bar for leverage, safety, and scale.

Reliability, Resilience, and Scale

• Define and uphold platform-level availability, durability, and recovery guarantees

• Own disaster recovery strategy, backups, and failure testing

• Embed reliability patterns into platform defaults

• Lead capacity planning and scaling decisions

Cost, Efficiency, and Sustainability

• Treat cost as a first-class architectural constraint

• Define cost attribution and visibility across tenants and workloads

• Drive efficiency through automation, scaling policies, and lifecycle design

• Partner with Product and Finance on long-term sustainability

Security and Compliance

• Own infrastructure-level security and compliance guarantees

• Ensure encryption, isolation, and auditability by default

• Partner with Security and Compliance teams to meet enterprise and regulatory requirements
  

How You’ll Lead

• Own infrastructure end-to-end with a small, senior, high-impact team

• Stay close to architecture, design decisions, and critical systems

• Set clear platform contracts and defaults for the rest of engineering

• Act as a strategic partner to Application, Identity, AI, and Tenant Services teams

• Lead incidents with calm judgment and systems thinking

• Balance speed, reliability, security, and cost - explicitly and transparently
  

What Makes You a Strong Fit

• You’ve designed, built, and operated large-scale infrastructure platforms in production

• You’re deeply comfortable with cloud-native, Kubernetes-based systems

• You understand networking, storage, security, and distributed system failure modes

• You’ve owned reliability, availability, and incident response in real systems
  You treat infrastructure as a product with clear contracts and defaults

• You lead through clarity, technical judgment, and trust rather than not org size

Why Is Atlan for You?

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:

1. 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.

2. Limitless Opportunities: At Atlan, your growth has no boundaries. If you’re ready to take initiative, the sky’s the limit.

3. A Global Data Community: We’re deeply embedded in the modern data stack, contributing to open-source projects, sponsoring meet-ups, 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 15+ 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.

We are an equal opportunity employer
At Atlan, we’re committed to helping data teams do their lives’ best work. We believe that diversity and authenticity are the cornerstones of innovation, and by embracing varied perspectives and experiences, we can create a workplace where everyone thrives. Atlan is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.