Atlassian
Principal Data Engineer
ExpertHybrid
Principal Data Engineer
Atlassian•5/29/2026
ExpertHybrid
Bengaluru, India
About the job
Atlassian is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to lead the architecture and evolution of scalable data engineering systems and analytics platforms supporting business critical decision making across the organization. The role involves technical leadership mentoring and building large scale streaming and batch data processing systems.
Responsibilities
- Lead technical evolution of data engineering capabilities
- architect scalable data solutions
- build streaming and batch data pipelines
- maintain operational data quality and system scalability
- mentor and coach data engineers
- coordinate cross functional engineering initiatives
- drive technical direction and long term maintainability
- work with analytics infrastructure and cloud technologies
Skills required
- SQL
- Spark
- Redshift
- Airflow
- AWS
- Athena
- EMR
- Flink
- Hive
- Kafka
- Streaming Pipelines
- Microservices
- Data Engineering
- Data Architecture
- Cloud Computing
- Batch Processing
- Python
- Scala
- Analytics
- Distributed Systems
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering Data Science Information Technology or related field
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience leading Data Engineering teams
- Experience with AWS data services and streaming architectures
