Senior Data Engineer
atlassian
Job Description
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Partner across engineering organizations to spearhead and execute high-impact, company-wide initiatives,
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Mentor and upskill junior engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous growth.
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Collaborate with leadership, product engineers, program managers, and data scientists to deeply understand and prioritize business data requirements.
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Leverage deep technical expertise to design and architect scalable, high-performance data solutions.
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Develop, launch, and optimize highly efficient, reliable ELT/ETL pipelines capable of processing both large-scale and specialized datasets.
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Intelligently design robust data models optimized for high-speed storage, accessibility, and downstream retrieval.
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Implement and deploy rigorous data quality frameworks to guarantee data accuracy, freshness, and trust.
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Maintain full technical ownership of the end-to-end data engineering lifecycle for your team's solutions.
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Participate in the team’s on-call rotation to ensure platform stability and support operational health.
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Partner with software engineering teams to design and build next-generation data systems that enable rapid, self-service data consumption.
Qualifications
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A BE in Computer Science or equivalent with 6+ years of professional experience as a Data Engineer or in a similar role
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Experience building scalable data pipelines in Spark using Airflow scheduler/executor framework or similar scheduling tools.
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Experience with Databricks and its APIs.
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Experience with modern databases (Redshift, Dynamo DB, Mongo DB, Postgres or similar) and data lakes.
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Proficient in one or more programming languages such as Python/Scala and rock-solid SQL skills.
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Champion automated builds and deployments using CICD tools like Bitbucket, Git
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Experience working with large-scale, high-performance data processing systems (batch and streaming)
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Experience working for SAAS companies
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Experience with Machine Learning
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Committed code to open source projects
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Experience building self-service tooling and platforms
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