Design, build, and operate Atlassian’s foundational data platform, including Flink streaming ingestion and MPP query systems such as StarRocks. The role owns architecture, production reliability, performance, cost, data quality, observability, code reviews, complex problem resolution, cross-team initiatives, and mentoring. Candidates need strong distributed-systems and data-engineering expertise, coding skills in Java, Scala, or Python, cloud infrastructure experience, and operational experience with high-scale platforms.
Working at Atlassian
Atlassians can choose where they work - whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity.
About the Role
We are looking for a Senior Engineer to help design, build, and operate Atlassian's foundational data platform, driving its architectural evolution and operational excellence.
Our platform powers the data behind critical experiences across the company-from rich in-product analytics in Jira, JSM, and Confluence, to dedicated solutions like Atlassian Analytics, the Teamwork Graph (TWG), and AI-native capabilities like Rovo. In this high-impact role, your engineering decisions will directly shape how hundreds of thousands of organizations explore, understand, and act on their data.
We seek individuals who are eager to shape the future and believe in the power of collaboration to achieve extraordinary results together.
At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. We follow consistent hiring practices and account for each candidate's skills, knowledge, and experience when setting base pay within the range.
This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
Core Qualifications
Benefits & Perks
Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits .
About Atlassian
At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Our software products help teams all over the planet and our solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through our tools makes what may be impossible alone, possible together.
We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.
To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh .
Atlassians can choose where they work - whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity.
About the Role
We are looking for a Senior Engineer to help design, build, and operate Atlassian's foundational data platform, driving its architectural evolution and operational excellence.
Our platform powers the data behind critical experiences across the company-from rich in-product analytics in Jira, JSM, and Confluence, to dedicated solutions like Atlassian Analytics, the Teamwork Graph (TWG), and AI-native capabilities like Rovo. In this high-impact role, your engineering decisions will directly shape how hundreds of thousands of organizations explore, understand, and act on their data.
We seek individuals who are eager to shape the future and believe in the power of collaboration to achieve extraordinary results together.
- Design, build and operate core components of Atlassian's data platform across streaming ingestion (Flink) and MPP query/serving (StarRocks), with high ownership from technical design to launch.
- Deliver solutions that are used by other teams and products across Atlassian.
- Own operational excellence for high-scale data platform systems in production-reliability, performance tuning, cost, and data quality/observability.
- Tackle complex architecture challenges, apply architectural standards, and drive them on new projects.
- Lead code reviews and documentation, and take on complex bug fixes, especially on high-risk problems.
- Set the standard for thorough, meaningful code reviews.
- Partner across engineering teams to contribute to initiatives spanning multiple projects.
- Mentor more junior members of the team.
At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. We follow consistent hiring practices and account for each candidate's skills, knowledge, and experience when setting base pay within the range.
This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
Core Qualifications
- 6+ years in software engineering with strong distributed-systems / data-engineering depth.
- Hands-on experience in data platform systems: streaming/ingestion (Flink; Spark acceptable) and/or MPP query engines (StarRocks / Trino / Apache Pinot / Apache Doris).
- Experience with operational management of high-scale data platform systems (production reliability, performance tuning, data quality/observability).
- Strong coding (Java/Scala/Python) and cloud data infrastructure (GCP/AWS).
- Open-source contributions to relevant projects are a strong positive.
Benefits & Perks
Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits .
About Atlassian
At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Our software products help teams all over the planet and our solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through our tools makes what may be impossible alone, possible together.
We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.
To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh .
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