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Field Security Engineer

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Experience in customer-facing security work at a B2B SaaS company
  • Proven ability to build AI agents in production environments
  • Deep understanding of AI and LLM security
  • Ability to work evening IST hours to overlap with US and EU customers

Responsibilities

  • Act as the security expert for enterprise customers, conducting calls and security reviews
  • Lead AI security conversations regarding agent behavior and governance
  • Accelerate security reviews by creating reusable artifacts and maintaining trust center content
  • Build automation to reduce manual tasks and contribute to compliance programs across various standards

About the company

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Atlan

Computer Software / SaaS

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 in 2024 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 data democratization and AI-readiness at companies like General Motors, Cisco, Autodesk, Unilever, Ralph Lauren, FOX, News Corp, Nasdaq, NextGen, Plaid, and HubSpot. We recently raised a $105M Series C, backed by top investors including GIC, Insight Partners, Sequoia Capital India, and Salesforce Ventures. For more information, visit http://www.atlan.com/ or follow us on Twitter at AtlanHQ.

Company details

Company typeScaleup
IndustryComputer Software / SaaS
Company size201 - 500

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Job description

Who We Are

Most companies are racing to deploy AI, but very few have the foundation to make it work reliably. Atlan is building that missing layer: the context layer for enterprise AI. We connect the business context behind data so humans and agents can operate with far more accuracy and confidence.

With backing from world-class investors including GIC, Insight Partners, Meritech, Peak XV, and Salesforce Ventures, we've earned the trust of most AI-forward enterprises like General Motors, Nasdaq, Workday and Elastic.

Come build the infrastructure that AI runs on.

Security is a reason Atlan's customers say yes. This role is why. You'll be the technical security voice customers hear on calls and read in their reviews, the engineer who builds the systems that make those reviews faster and increasingly self-serve, and a contributor to the compliance program that keeps Atlan trustworthy at enterprise scale.

As Atlan builds Context Studio and an agentic, MCP-based platform, the security conversations you lead are increasingly about AI itself: how agents behave, how context and data are governed, and what enterprise customers need to feel confident deploying AI in their stack.

Roughly half your week is direct customer security work. The rest is building.

What You'll Own

  • Be the security expert enterprise customers trust. Own calls, architecture deep-dives, and security reviews with sophisticated security teams at Fortune 500 companies across financial services, healthcare, and payments. When the deal is on the line and the question is hard, you give an accurate answer or commit to one.

  • Lead AI security conversations credibly. Customers ask about agent behavior, MCP exposure, context governance, and ISO 42001. You can hold those conversations today, not after a ramp period.

  • Turn security reviews into an accelerator. Own what Vanta can't handle: the cases that need judgment, the reusable artifacts that close reviews faster, and the trust center content that deflects repeat questions before they reach a human. This includes keeping Atlan's public trust centre current and genuinely useful. The measure is shorter customer onboarding, not completed questionnaires.

  • Build the automation that shrinks the manual work over time. Design and ship AI agents that close the gaps Vanta leaves, keep evidence current, and make the security review process measurably lighter every quarter. You own these systems end to end.

  • Contribute to Atlan's compliance program across SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, HIPAA, and GDPR: evidence collection, audit support, and continuous-compliance automation. This is a real growth path as your scope expands beyond field work, not a secondary responsibility.

What Makes You a Match

  • You've done customer-facing security work at a B2B SaaS company and can hold a credible technical conversation with an enterprise security team without losing accuracy or composure when the deal is on the line.

  • You've built AI agents in production. Not prototypes, not prompts in a notebook. Real systems that replaced manual work in compliance, triage, evidence collection, or questionnaire automation.

  • You understand AI and LLM security deeply enough to explain it to a customer: prompt injection, agent guardrails, MCP exposure, model and data risks, and where frameworks like ISO 42001 apply.

  • You identify the gap, build the fix, and close the loop. You don't wait for someone else to execute on a commitment you made on a call.

  • You're comfortable working evening IST hours to overlap with US and EU customers. This is a real part of the role, not occasional.

Bonus

  • Hands-on experience with automation platforms like n8n or Tines

  • Working knowledge of SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, HIPAA, or GDPR

Why Atlan?

Joining Atlan means being part of a global movement to help data teams do their life’s best work. Here’s what you can expect:

  • 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.

More About Us

Atlan is building the shared context layer that enterprises need so AI can operate on trusted, governed context. The conversation has moved from data leaders asking: “Can we trust the data in our stack?” to businesses asking: “Can we trust AI inside the business?”

We are the missing infrastructure for businesses becoming AI-forward - the connective tissue between their data stack, operational systems, and AI agents.

To learn more, visit www.atlan.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Atlan is committed to building an inclusive, diverse, and authentic workplace. We do 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 legally protected characteristic.

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