Senior Data Platform Engineer
Engineering | Bengaluru, India | Remote, Remote
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About the Role
We are looking for a Senior Engineer to help design, build, and operate Atlassian's foundational data platform, driving its architectural evolution and operational excellence.
Our platform powers the data behind critical experiences across the companyfrom 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 high-impact role, your engineering decisions 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.
- 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 productionreliability, 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.
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This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
Core Qualifications
- 7+ years in software engineering with strong distributed-systems / data-engineering depth.
- Hands-on experience in data platform systems: streaming/ingestion (Flink) and/or MPP query engines (StarRocks / Trino / Apache Pinot / Apache Doris/ Druid).
- 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 & 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
Perks and Benefits
Health and Wellness
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Short-Term Disability
- Long-Term Disability
- FSA
- HSA With Employer Contribution
- Fitness Subsidies
- Mental Health Benefits
- On-Site Gym
- HSA
Parental Benefits
- Adoption Leave
- Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
- Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
- Fertility Benefits
- Adoption Assistance Program
- Family Support Resources
Work Flexibility
- Flexible Work Hours
- Remote Work Opportunities
- Hybrid Work Opportunities
- Work-From-Home Stipend
Office Life and Perks
- Holiday Events
- Casual Dress
- Pet-friendly Office
- Happy Hours
- Snacks
- Some Meals Provided
- On-Site Cafeteria
Vacation and Time Off
- Paid Vacation
- Paid Holidays
- Personal/Sick Days
- Volunteer Time Off
- Leave of Absence
Financial and Retirement
- 401(K) With Company Matching
- Company Equity
- Performance Bonus
- Relocation Assistance
- Financial Counseling
Professional Development
- Access to Online Courses
- Internship Program
- Leadership Training Program
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Learning and Development Stipend
- Promote From Within
Diversity and Inclusion
- Founder led
- Employee Resource Groups (ERG)
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
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