Head of Data Engineering

Atlassian
San Francisco, Seattle
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceExperience: 15+ yearsEducation: mastersSkills: ["Leadership","Relationship building","Product sense","Stakeholder management","Domain expertise"]

Lead Atlassian’s Data Engineering practice and build data products that power GTM (Marketing and Sales) strategy and enterprise reporting, analytics, and AI workloads. Shape technical strategy and data architecture while scaling teams globally, partnering closely with IT, product engineering, analytics teams, and data scientists. Own data platform execution with a focus on systems at scale, microservices, RESTful APIs, and DevOps practices for CI/CD, observability, monitoring, and lineage.

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Head of Data Engineering

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Job Summary

Lead Atlassian’s Data Engineering practice and build data products that power GTM (Marketing and Sales) strategy and enterprise reporting, analytics, and AI workloads. Shape technical strategy and data architecture while scaling teams globally, partnering closely with IT, product engineering, analytics teams, and data scientists. Own data platform execution with a focus on systems at scale, microservices, RESTful APIs, and DevOps practices for CI/CD, observability, monitoring, and lineage.
Location: San Francisco, Seattle
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Sr. Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead the Data Engineering team to build data products that power GTM strategy and key organizational decisions.
  • •Shape technical strategy and data architecture while developing a world-class data engineering practice.
  • •Enable reporting, analytics, data science, machine learning, and AI workloads through scalable systems.
  • •Partner as the data domain specialist with IT, data platform, product engineering, GTM stakeholders, analytics teams, and data scientists across multiple programs.
  • •Own scalable delivery for data platforms that ingest billions of events monthly and support dozens of internal teams.

Key Requirements

  • •15+ years building and scaling data teams across data strategy, infrastructure planning, architecture, and data products.
  • •10+ years leading data engineering teams, including managing managers of managers and scaling to 20+ engineers across geographies.
  • •10+ years delivering data and analytics solutions for product teams.
  • •Product sense to guide value using data across the organization.
  • •Experience building microservices and RESTful APIs, plus DevOps best practices (CI/CD, observability, monitoring, lineage).
Experience:15+ yearsSaaS
Education:Master's
Skills:LeadershipRelationship buildingProduct senseStakeholder managementDomain expertise
Tech Stack:MicroservicesRESTful APIsDevOpsCI/CDData observabilityMonitoringLineageTableauAmplitudeRedashMachine LearningAIData architecture

Company Brief

Atlassian
Atlassian develops collaboration and workflow software—Jira, Confluence, Trello, Loom and more—used by teams for project management, software development, and IT service management across enterprises worldwide.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Sydney, Australia
Founded: 2002
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