Job Description
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.
Data is a big deal at Atlassian. We ingest billions of events each month into our analytical platforms and have dozens of teams across the company that depend on data platforms to drive their decisions.
Atlassian is looking for an Engineering Leader to join the Data Engineering team and build data products that power product strategy and important decisions across the organization . We are looking for a leader passionate about building systems at scale. You will lead a world-class data engineering practice shape up technical strategy and data architecture and develop data products to enable reporting analytics data science machine learning and AI workloads.
In this role you will lead a high-performing organization focused on designing building and scaling foundational analytical data products that power decision-making across the company. You will partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders to define data strategies improve data quality and reliability and deliver reusable data models pipelines and platforms that enable analytics at scale. This is a critical leadership role at the intersection of data architecture engineering excellence and business impact.
On your first day we'll expect you to have:
- 15+ years of experience in building and scaling data teams with a focus on data strategy infrastructure planning architecture and data products
- 10+ years of experience leading data engineering teams experience managing managers of managers and experience scaling organizations with over 20+ engineers across geographies
- 10+ Years of experience delivering data and analytics solutions for product teams
- Product sense with an understanding of product drivers and of how to guide value using data across the organization
- Demonstrated experience developing influential relationships and trust with senior leaders across different departments
- Prior experience partnering with Analytics Data Science Engineering and Product Management teams
- Experience building Microservices and RESTful APIs
- Experience implementing DevOps best practices within the data platform including solutions for CI/CD data observability monitoring and lineage
- Experience with BI tools like Tableau Amplitude and Redash
- A graduate degree in Computer Science or a similar subject area
It's great but not required if you have:
- Experience working for SAAS companies
- Experience with Machine Learning
- Committed code to open source projects
Compensation
At Atlassian we strive to design equitable explainable and competitive compensation programs. To support this goal the baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range but in turn we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidate's skills expertise or experience.
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: $234000 - $305500
Zone B: $210600 - $274950
Zone C: $194400 - $253800
This role may also be eligible for benefits bonuses commissions and equity.
Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones 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.
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 go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits .
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.
To learn more about our culture and hiring process visit go.atlassian.com/crh .
Skills Required
- 15+ years of experience in building and scaling data teams
- 10+ years leading data engineering teams
- Experience managing managers of managers
- 10+ years delivering data and analytics solutions
- Experience building Microservices
- Experience building RESTful APIs
- Experience implementing DevOps best practices
- Experience with BI tools like Tableau Amplitude Redash
- Graduate degree in Computer Science or similar
What the Team is Saying
Atlassian Compensation & Benefits Highlights
How does Atlassian ensure its pay and bonus plans are competitive?
Atlassian approaches compensation through a total rewards strategy that combines salary bonuses equity healthcare benefits flexibility and long-term career development opportunities. The company competes for talent across enterprise software cloud infrastructure AI product development and global technology markets while supporting employees across engineering product sales customer success and operations organizations.
Competitive compensation and equity opportunities: Atlassian offers market-based compensation packages that may include salary annual bonuses commissions and RSUs depending on role and level. Employees frequently reference strong compensation equity participation and competitive pay relative to the broader technology industry. Atlassian is often recognized positively on compensation-related workplace rankings and employee review platforms.
Healthcare and wellness support: Benefits include medical dental and vision coverage mental health resources wellness programs disability insurance life insurance and broader wellbeing support initiatives. Atlassian also emphasizes employee wellness through flexibility mental health resources and work-life balance programs designed to support distributed employees globally.
Retirement and financial wellbeing: Employees receive retirement planning support 401(k) programs with company matching in eligible regions and broader financial wellness resources. Atlassian’s compensation philosophy emphasizes supporting both immediate financial wellbeing and long-term employee growth.
Flexibility and distributed work support: Atlassian’s Team Anywhere model is a major part of its broader employee value proposition. Employees frequently cite remote flexibility work-life balance and distributed work support as meaningful contributors to overall job satisfaction and retention.
Career growth and long-term investment: Compensation is reinforced through internal mobility mentorship leadership development and opportunities to work on highly visible enterprise software and AI initiatives. Employees often describe career development and ownership opportunities as major strengths of the overall Atlassian experience.
Culture and workplace experience: Employees frequently highlight collaborative coworkers approachable managers and transparent leadership communication as important parts of the company’s overall value proposition beyond compensation alone. Atlassian’s culture is often associated with strong employee experience and sustainable work practices.
External signals:
- Compensation Reputation: Employees on Glassdoor and Comparably frequently rate Atlassian’s compensation RSUs and benefits positively relative to peer enterprise software companies.
- Benefits Satisfaction: Comparably reports strong employee satisfaction scores tied to compensation benefits and work-life balance categories.
- Flexibility as Total Rewards Value: Atlassian leaders reported applications per role doubled after implementing Team Anywhere reinforcing flexibility as a major component of the company’s broader employee value proposition.
- Retention and Talent Competitiveness: Atlassian continues competing aggressively for cloud AI and enterprise software talent while expanding investments in AI-powered collaboration and enterprise technologies.
- Equity and Long-Term Incentives: Employees frequently reference equity opportunities and long-term career growth as important parts of the overall compensation experience.
Bottom line: Atlassian supports competitive compensation through a combination of salary bonuses equity benefits flexibility and long-term career growth opportunities tied to enterprise software and AI innovation at global scale.
Atlassian Insights
What We Do
Atlassian creates teamwork solutions for high-performing teams. Our portfolio of collaboration and work management software products includes Jira Confluence Trello Loom and Rovo. More than 300000 businesses worldwide rely on Atlassian’s technology including 80 percent of Fortune 500 companies. Our solutions support various business teams and they help organizations plan track and deliver their biggest ideas together.
Why Work With Us
At Atlassian we believe we can accomplish so much more together than apart — which is why everything from our tooling — to our distributed workforce — to how our teams are structured is rooted in collaboration. Come join us and help unleash the potential of every team.
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