Sr. Data Engineering Manager

Working at Atlassian

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Data is a big deal at Atlassian. We ingest billions events each month into our analytics platform and we have dozens of teams across the company depending on the platform to drive their decisions. The team is also responsible to build and manage Atlassian's operational data store which is critical in helping make decisions and guiding their operations based on the data and services we provide. We are looking for a data engineering manager to join our growing People Data Engineering team which is part of the Data Engineering department. Come and join our efforts to further democratize data and build an exceptional data products for the company.

In this role you will get to...

• Build and lead a team of data engineers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, and hands-on career development
• Provide deep technical guidance in a number of aspects of data engineering in a scalable ecosystem
• Work with close counterparts in other departments as part of a multi-functional team, and build this culture in your team
• You will be based in US

More about you...

• You have stellar people management skills and experience in leading an agile software team
• You thrive when developing phenomenal people, not just great products
• You have worked closely Data Science, analytics and platform teams
• You bring expertise in building and maintaining high-quality components and services
• You are able to drive technical excellence, pushing for innovation and quality
• You have at least 6-8 years experience in a software development role as an individual contributor
• You have at least 3 years of people management experience
• Deep understanding of data challenges at scale challenges and the eco-system
• Experience with solution building and architecting with public cloud offerings such as Amazon Web Services, DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, S3, Spark/Spark-Streaming, Presto/Athena, GraphDatabases
• Experience with Databricks, DBT, PySpark,Airflow
• Experience with at least one high-level programming language such as Python
• Experience in Lambda Architecture and other Enterprise Data architectural standard methodologies
• Experience with test automation and continuous delivery
• A graduate degree in Computer Science or similar discipline

Nice to have..

• Understanding and experience building RESTful APIs and microservices
• Experience with Tableau and Tableau administration
• Experience with Machine Learning
• You're Committed code to open source projects and have some examples

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

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.

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