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As an Observability Architect for the Platform Engineering team, you will collaborate closely with various platform engineering and product teams to enhance Atlassian's telemetry offerings and develop a premier monitoring solution.
Your primary responsibility will be to define and reimagine the overall telemetry strategy while creating a centralized monitoring solution for all Atlassian products. In this role, you will lead the design and decision-making processes for our telemetry architecture. You will partner with Technical Program Managers and developers to create solutions that improve user experience by streamlining the utilization of observability systems. Additionally, you will be instrumental in identifying opportunities for innovation within the telemetry landscape, ensuring that Atlassian remains at the forefront of industry standards.
This position is well-suited for a leader and coach who is enthusiastic about taking ownership of the overall Observability architecture. You will support the team in developing and implementing solutions that are not only cost-effective but also scalable and reliable.
Responsibilities
- Regularly tackle the largest and most complex problems on the team, from technical design to Solution.
- Deliver solutions that are used by other teams and products
- Determine plans-of-attack on large projects
- Routinely tackle complex architecture challenges and apply architectural standards and start using them on new projects
- Lead code reviews and documentation, as well as take on complex bug fixes, especially on high-risk problems
- Set the standard for thorough, meaningful code reviews
- Partner across Engineering teams to take on company-wide initiatives spanning multiple projects
- Transfer your depth of knowledge from your current language to excel as a Software Engineer
- Mentor more junior members of the team
Minimum Qualifications
- Previous experience in building and managing large scale telemetry systems, OTEL, TSDB
- Previous experience building large scale data ingestion pipelines
- Software development in Java, Python
- Serious analytical skills across different levels of the stack: Network, .Net/Java, Operating System
Preferred Qualifications
- Practical experience in GDPR, PCI, and HIPAA
- Architecture class knowledge in AWS RDS, data bricks
- Data quality improvement programs
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 .
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Atlassian creates teamwork solutions for high-performing teams. Our portfolio of collaboration and work management software products includes Jira, Confluence, Trello, Loom and Rovo. More than 300,000 businesses worldwide rely on Atlassian’s technology, including 80 percent of Fortune 500 companies. Our solutions support various business teams and they help organizations plan, track, and deliver their biggest ideas together.
Why Work With Us
At Atlassian, we believe we can accomplish so much more together than apart — which is why everything from our tooling — to our distributed workforce — to how our teams are structured is rooted in collaboration. Come join us and help unleash the potential of every team.
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