Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform
Atlassian · Posted Oct 7
Enterprise project management, team collaboration, and software development tools
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About the role
Atlassian's foundational data platform powers the data behind critical experiences across the company, from in-product analytics in Jira, JSM, and Confluence to Atlassian Analytics, the Teamwork Graph (TWG), and AI-native capabilities like Rovo. The team designs, builds, and operates high-scale streaming ingestion and MPP query/serving systems used by other teams and products across Atlassian. This senior engineering role owns core platform components from technical design through launch, along with production reliability, performance tuning, cost, and data quality/observability.
What you will do
- 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.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 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 and support
- Health and wellbeing resources
- Paid volunteer days
- Bonuses
- Equity
About Atlassian
Atlassian is a leading software company that builds enterprise collaboration, project planning, and issue-tracking tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Trello. Empowering teams across the globe, Atlassian focuses on unleashing the potential of every team through advanced workflows, cloud infrastructure, and AI-driven capabilities.
- Industry
- Software
- Company size
- 10001+ employees
- Founded
- 2002
- Location
- Sydney, Australia
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $210M raised
- 2010-07-13Venture - Series Unknown$60M
- 2014-04-10Secondary Market$150M
Leadership
CEO & Co-Founder
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Revenue Officer
Chief People and AI Enablement Officer
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