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. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.

To help our teams work together effectively, this role is fully remote, but requires you to be located in Australia/New Zealand.

We're hiring a Senior Data Platform Engineer, reporting to the Engineering Manager for Product Data Platform. You are either an expert Data Engineer with exposure to software engineering and cloud infrastructure or even a Software Engineer with a decent knowledge in analytical data platforms.

You have extensive knowledge of big data systems and are equally comfortable designing and developing high-quality software services. You will be part of the team developing and maintaining innovative solutions for Atlassians' data platform with a focus on reliability, scalability and performance.

This role is a unique opportunity to work in a fast-paced, challenging, and innovative environment with a high degree of problem-solving and the chance to create and implement innovative solutions for our business needs.

In this role, you will be joining a strong team of engineers with varied backgrounds ranging from backend engineers to core data engineers who are responsible for managing Atlassians' customer facing data platform.

Your future team

To become a 100-year company, we need a world-class engineering organisation made up of empowered teams who have the tools and infrastructure to do the best work of their careers.

As part of a unified R&D team, Engineering is prioritising key initiatives which support our customers in moving to cloud while simultaneously continuing to bring the most value to our customers through investments across our core product suite – including Jira, Confluence, Trello, and Bitbucket.

We're looking for people who want to write the future and who believe that we can accomplish so much more together.

In this role, you will:

Design, develop and own delivery of high quality big data and software solutions aiming to solve business needs.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams, senior engineers and architects across multiple disciplines to spar, design, and ship new features.

Contribute to uplifting and maintaining high code quality through peer code reviews, defining and establishing coding standards/guidelines/best practices in the team.

Establish and drive improvements to operational excellence - security, reliability, availability, performance, procedures and processes etc.

Use data driven approach to drive decisions and propose technical solutions to navigate ambiguity and change, learn and adapt to changing landscape.

Your background:

5+ years of experience in Data/Software Engineering role with relevant exposure to the Big data ecosystems

Bachelor's or Master's degree (preferably a Computer Science degree or equivalent experience). Expertise in handling complex problems in a distributed and big data environment.

Experience building applications in one or more languages (Kotlin, Scala, Java, Python) Strong knowledge of AWS services

Experience in building services from the ground up – from gathering requirements, designing, building, deploying, and ownership

Familiarity with cloud architecture patterns and an engineering discipline to produce software with quality, performance, scalability, reliability, high availability, and operational excellence.

Experience with any of the following - Databricks, Spark, EMR, Flink, StarRocks

Our perks & benefits

Atlassian offers a variety of perks and benefits to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health coverage, paid volunteer days, wellness resources, and so much more. Visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits to learn more.

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.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian