Senior Data Engineer, DX

About the Position

We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join our team at DX, a fast-growing SaaS company acquired by Atlassian. DX focuses on building and maintaining data pipelines for high-performing teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain data pipelines: Extract, transform, and load live product data into research-ready formats (Postgres, data lake, or analytics warehouse).
• Design and optimize data models: Tailored to the recurring analyses behind our AI Impact Reports, DX Core 4 benchmarks, and industry-facing publications.
• Collaborate with research and engineering teams: Understand analytical requirements and translate them into scalable, reproducible data infrastructure.
• Ensure data quality and consistency: Focus on definitions, edge cases, and making sure the same question gets the same answer every time.
• Support ad hoc data pulls: For time-sensitive research and cross-functional requests from Sales, Customer Success, and product teams.
• Document everything: Schemas, transformation logic, data dictionaries, and pipeline dependencies for self-service by analysts and researchers.

Requirements

• Strong SQL skills: Ability to write complex queries, optimize performance, and model data for analytical workloads.
• Hands-on experience with Postgres: Including working with semi-structured data (JSONB, nested fields).
• Experience with ETL/ELT pipelines: Moving data from production systems into analytics-ready formats.
• Comfort with large, messy datasets: Knowledge of how to clean, normalize, and validate data at scale.
• Strong documentation habits: Writing clear schema docs, data dictionaries, and pipeline runbooks.
• Self-motivated and reliable: Ability to manage recurring deadlines with minimal oversight.

Nice to Have

• Experience with SaaS product data, telemetry, or event-driven data.
• Familiarity with developer tooling data: Git/GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket activity, CI/CD pipeline metrics, Jira issue data.
• Exposure to survey data, time-series analysis, or benchmarking methodologies.

We Offer

• Competitive salary: Ranges from $138,942 to $218,550 per year, depending on the geographic pay zone.
• Comprehensive benefits: Health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and more. Visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits for details.

About the Company

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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