Senior Data Engineer

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.

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.

Our Product DE organization is looking for a Senior Data Engineer reporting to the Senior Data Engineering Manager. You will be responsible for designing premier data architecture and solutions that drive strategic decision-making. Beyond technical execution, you will collaborate with business stakeholders to translate operational needs into technical requirements and spearhead initiatives to improve overall system efficiency.

• Partner across engineering organizations to spearhead and execute high-impact, company-wide initiatives,
• Mentor and upskill junior engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous growth.
• Collaborate with leadership, product engineers, program managers, and data scientists to deeply understand and prioritize business data requirements.
• Leverage deep technical expertise to design and architect scalable, high-performance data solutions.
• Develop, launch, and optimize highly efficient, reliable ELT/ETL pipelines capable of processing both large-scale and specialized datasets.
• Intelligently design robust data models optimized for high-speed storage, accessibility, and downstream retrieval.
• Implement and deploy rigorous data quality frameworks to guarantee data accuracy, freshness, and trust.
• Maintain full technical ownership of the end-to-end data engineering lifecycle for your team's solutions.
• Participate in the team’s on-call rotation to ensure platform stability and support operational health.
• Partner with software engineering teams to design and build next-generation data systems that enable rapid, self-service data consumption.

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. Please visit for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.

This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.

In The United States
, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:

• Zone A: $167,400 - $218,550
• Zone B: $150,660 - $196,695
• Zone C: $138,942 - $181,397

• A BE in Computer Science or equivalent with 6+ years of professional experience as a Data Engineer or in a similar role
• Experience building scalable data pipelines in Spark using Airflow scheduler/executor framework or similar scheduling tools.
• Experience with Databricks and its APIs.
• Experience with modern databases (Redshift, Dynamo DB, Mongo DB, Postgres or similar) and data lakes.
• Proficient in one or more programming languages such as Python/Scala and rock-solid SQL skills.
• Champion automated builds and deployments using CICD tools like Bitbucket, Git
• Experience working with large-scale, high-performance data processing systems (batch and streaming)
• Experience working for SAAS companies
• Experience with Machine Learning
• Committed code to open source projects
• Experience building self-service…