Atlassian · 1 day ago
Senior Principal Data Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$194K/yr - $306K/yr
12+ years expAtlassian is a company motivated by a common goal to unleash the potential of every team. They are seeking a Senior Principal Data Engineer to join their Data Engineering Team, where the role involves leading technical evolution, ensuring data quality, and mentoring engineers to build data-driven solutions that support business decisions.
CollaborationEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSoftware
Responsibilities
Own the technical evolution of the data engineering capabilities and be responsible for ensuring solutions are being delivered incrementally, meeting outcomes, and promptly escalating risks and issues
Establish a deep understanding of how things work in data engineering, use this to direct and coordinate the technical aspects of work across data engineering, and systematically improve productivity across the teams
Maintain a high bar for operational data quality and proactively address performance, scale, complexity and security considerations
Drive complex decisions that can impact the work in data engineering. Set the technical direction and balance customer and business needs with long-term maintainability & scale
Understand and define the problem space, and architect solutions. Coordinate a team of engineers towards implementing them, unblocking them along the way if necessary
Lead a team of data engineers through mentoring and coaching, work closely with the engineering manager, and provide consistent feedback to help them manage and grow the team
Work with close counterparts in other departments as part of a multi-functional team, and build this culture in your team
Qualification
Required
You have 12+ years of experience in a Data Engineer role as an individual contributor
You have at least 3 years of experience as a tech lead for a Data Engineering team
You are an engineer with a track record of driving and delivering large (multi-person or multi-team) and complex efforts
You are a great communicator and maintain many of the essential cross-team and cross-functional relationships necessary for the team's success. Partner closely with Product Managers/Engineers/Researchers/Data Engineers/Marketers/Privacy and Executive teams across Atlassian to drive and influence
Experience with building streaming pipelines with a micro-services architecture for low-latency analytics
Experience working with varied forms of data infrastructure, including relational databases (e.g. SQL), Spark, and column stores (e.g. Redshift)
Experience building scalable data pipelines using Spark using Airflow scheduler/executor framework or similar scheduling tools
Experience working in a technical environment with the latest technologies like AWS data services (Redshift, Athena, EMR) or similar Apache projects (Spark, Flink, Hive, or Kafka)
Understanding of Data Engineering tools/frameworks and standards to improve the productivity and quality of output for Data Engineers across the team
Industry experience working with large-scale, high-performance data processing systems (batch and streaming) with a 'Streaming First' mindset to drive Atlassian's business growth and improve the product experience
Preferred
Built and designed Kappa or Lambda architecture data platforms and services
Experience implementing Master Data Management (MDM) solutions
Built pipelines using Databricks and is well-versed with their APIs
Experience in suggesting AI for Data Engineering to improve productivity and impact
Benefits
Health and wellbeing resources
Paid volunteer days
Company
Atlassian
Atlassian is a software company that offers proprietary software products for teamwork, project management, and software development.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$210MKey Investors
T. Rowe PriceAccel
2015-12-10IPO
2014-04-08Secondary Market· $150M
2010-07-14Series A· $60M
Leadership Team
Michael Cannon-Brookes
Co-founder & Co-CEO
Scott Farquhar
Co-Founder and Board Member
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