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!
About the role
We are looking for an experienced Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Engineer to establish and lead our compliance function as the first GRC team member. This individual contributor (IC) role is critical to managing and automating compliance requirements, ensuring the organisation achieves and maintains key certifications such as SOC and ISO.
What will you do?
- Set up continuous GRC for Atlan, and aim to reduce the audit period.
- Build the foundation of the GRC function and establish compliance processes from the ground up.
- Work directly with auditors to meet regulatory and certification requirements (e.g., SOC and ISO).
- Leverage modern compliance tools like Vanta and OneTrust to automate and streamline processes.
- Use automation and AI technologies to enhance the efficiency of compliance and risk management activities.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for all compliance-related activities and audits.
What makes you a great match for us? 😍
- Proven experience and expertise (4–12 years) in compliance engineering, IT, or security with a recent focus on automation and modern compliance tools.
- Expertise in using tools like Vanta, OneTrust, and other relevant technologies in the compliance ecosystem.
- Proven ability to execute as an individual contributor and a strong preference for hands-on work.
- Deep understanding of governance, risk, and compliance frameworks, with experience managing SOC and ISO certifications.
- A passion for establishing and scaling processes in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
