Head of Data Engineering

Working at Atlassian
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Data is a big deal at Atlassian. We ingest billions of events each month into our analytical platforms and have dozens of teams across the company that depend on data platforms to drive their decisions.
Atlassian is looking for an Engineering Leader to join the Data Engineering team and build data products that power product strategy and important decisions across the organization . We are looking for a leader passionate about building systems at scale. You will lead a world-class data engineering practice, shape up technical strategy and data architecture, and develop data products to enable reporting, analytics, data science, machine learning, and AI workloads.
As the data domain specialist, you will partner with IT, data platform, product engineering, analytics teams and data scientists to support multiple programs. This is a remote position and will report to the Head of Engineering.
On your first day, we'll expect you to have:

• 15+ years of experience in building and scaling data teams with a focus on data strategy, infrastructure planning, architecture, and data products
• 10+ years of experience leading data engineering teams, experience managing managers of managers, and experience scaling organizations with over 20+ engineers across geographies
• 10+ Years of experience delivering data and analytics solutions for product teams
• Product sense with an understanding of product drivers and of how to guide value using data across the organization
• Demonstrated experience developing influential relationships and trust with senior leaders across different departments
• Prior experience partnering with Analytics , Data Science, Engineering and Product Management teams
• Experience building Microservices and RESTful APIs
• Experience implementing DevOps best practices within the data platform, including solutions for CI/CD, data observability, monitoring, and lineage
• Experience with BI tools like Tableau, Amplitude, and Redash
• A graduate degree in Computer Science or a similar subject area

It's great but not required if you have:

• Experience working for SAAS companies
• Experience with Machine Learning
• Committed code to open source projects

Compensation
At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. To support this goal, the baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range, but in turn we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidate's skills, expertise, or experience. In the United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:
Zone A: $234,000 - $305,500
Zone B: $210,600 - $274,950
Zone C: $194,400 - $253,800
This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.
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 go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits .
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.
To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.
To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh .