Data Platform Engineer

Overview

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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