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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Data Engineer, DX - **Company:** Atlassian - **Location:** Salt Lake City, UT, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $167,400.0 - $218,550.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, JIRA, Software as a Service, Data Dictionary, Data Infrastructure, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Relational Databases, Database Queries, Programming Tools, PostgreSQL, Software Engineering, Gitlab, Data Lakes, Semi-structured Data, Atlassian Tools, Bitbucket, Data Pipelines - **Published:** August 18, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/2107810a-c906-4ef3-bb92-8516a8aaac2a ## About the Role * Strong SQL skills: you can write complex queries, optimize performance, and model data for analytical workloads * Hands-on experience with Postgres or similar relational databases, including working with semi-structured data (JSONB, nested fields) * Experience building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines that move data from production systems into analytics-ready formats * Comfort working with large, messy, real-world datasets: you know how to clean, normalize, and validate data at scale * Strong documentation habits: you write clear schema docs, data dictionaries, and pipeline runbooks without being asked * Self-motivated and reliable: you can manage recurring deadlines (e.g., quarterly reporting cycles) with minimal oversight Nice to have: * Experience working 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 ## Description What you'll do * Build and maintain data pipelines that 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 closely with the research and engineering teams to understand analytical requirements and translate them into scalable, reproducible data infrastructure * Ensure data quality and consistency: you care about 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 so that analysts and researchers can self-serve confidently, * High visibility: The data you shape will underpin reports cited by engineering leaders at the world's largest software organizations * High ownership: You'll own the full data pipeline from raw product data to research-ready datasets. * Meaningful domain: You'll work at the intersection of developer experience, AI measurement, and engineering productivity, a space that's defining how the industry thinks about software development * Research-backed environment: Our team includes the researchers behind the DORA, SPACE, and DevEx frameworks. 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