Working at Atlassian

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About the Role

We are looking for a Data Platform Engineer to help build and operate Atlassian's foundational data platform, growing rapidly on high-scale distributed data systems with real ownership.

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 role, the components you build 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.

Build and operate components of Atlassian's data platform across streaming ingestion (Flink) and MPP query/serving (StarRocks), alongside senior engineers.
Contribute high-quality code from design through delivery, taking ownership of features and bug fixes.
Participate in operating high-scale data platform systems in production-on-call, debugging, and basic performance and data-quality tuning.
Participate in code reviews and write clear documentation.
Collaborate with your team and partner teams to deliver reliable, performant data infrastructure.
Continuously learn and grow your depth in distributed data systems.

3+ years in software engineering with solid distributed-systems / data fundamentals.
Exposure to / experience with data platform systems - streaming/ingestion (Flink) and/or MPP query engines (StarRocks / Trino / Apache Pinot / Apache Doris/ Druid).
Some experience or strong aptitude for operational management of high-scale data platform systems (participating in on-call, debugging production, performance/data-quality basics).
Strong coding (Java/Scala/Python) and familiarity with 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 .

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.