Data Engineering at Atlassian
Roles, Comp & Culture
An L6 staff data engineer at Atlassian sits around $340K total comp from 52 verified salary datapoints. The primary Data Engineering tech consists of Airflow, Athena and AWS, according to current job listings. Atlassian pays data engineers above other Technology companies. Reviews put them at 3.1 on Glassdoor, toward the bottom of the pack. Atlassian employees are stressed and employee happiness has held flat over the past year. Layoff risk scores low for the next 30 days. 1 data engineering role is open right now.
Atlassian data engineer compensation
Each level's figure is the median of individual Atlassian offers at that level, so it reflects a typical outcome rather than an average pulled up by a few large packages. Total comp counts base salary plus equity and bonus annualized over the vest, and the range shown is the middle half of offers, with the top and bottom quarters trimmed off.
Atlassian employee sentiment, tracked weekly
Employee happiness for data engineers over the past year, so you can see which direction it is moving, not just where it sits today.
Recent Atlassian events
Layoffs, leadership changes, and other major moves at the company, with dates.
- LayoffMar 2026~63 roles cut
- LayoffMar 2026Layoff
- Exec departureMar 2026Leadership change
- LayoffFeb 2026~1,600 roles cut
- Exec departureFeb 2026Leadership change
- Exec departureJan 2026Leadership change
- Exec departureDec 2025Leadership change
- Exec departureOct 2025Leadership change
- Exec departureSep 2025Leadership change
- LayoffAug 2025~200 roles cut
- Exec departureAug 2025Leadership change
- Exec departureApr 2025Leadership change
Notable company events we track, with dates.
Atlassian data engineering tech stack
The languages, storage, and processing tools Atlassian data engineers actually work with, grouped by what they do. Tailor your system-design answers to this stack.
SQLAtlassian data engineer job openings
A live read on what they are hiring: open roles, recent postings, where, and at what level.
Practice for the Atlassian loop
The practice problems tagged with this company, grouped by domain and easiest first.
Preparing for the Atlassian loop
The round-by-round process, example questions, and prep plan are on the interview guide.
Compare Atlassian with other data engineering employers
How the role, pay, and loop stack up against peer companies.
Prepare at Atlassian interview difficulty
- 01
Reading a solution is not the same as writing one
Every engineer who has frozen on a query they had read a dozen times knows the gap. The only preparation that closes it is producing the answer yourself, under time, before the interview does it for you
- 02
76% of hiring managers reject on the coding task, not the resume
From HackerRank's 2024 Developer Skills Report. Candidates who look strong on paper still fail the live screen if they haven't done timed, executable practice
- 03
5 problem shapes cover 80% of data engineer loops
Dedup, sessionization, top-N-per-group, slowly-changing dimensions, partition tricks. Writing the shapes by hand turns the unfamiliar into pattern recognition
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