Principal Machine Learning System Engineer - Data Engineering

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• Lead the design, development, and deployment of scalable, reliable, and high-performance data and ML pipelines for search, powering data acquisition across model training, evaluation and experimentation for team.
• Architect and optimize data infrastructure for ingesting, processing, and serving large-scale, high-velocity search and experimentation data.
• Develop and productionize ML models for search ranking, relevance, and personalization, ensuring robust offline and online experimentation.
• Drive best practices in data quality, governance, reproducibility, and operational excellence for ML and data engineering workflows.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (data scientists, engineers, product managers) to define data schemas, metrics, and logging standards for experimentation and search analytics.
• Mentor and guide engineers across teams, raising the bar for technical excellence, experimentation rigor, and system reliability.
• Champion MLOps and DataOps practices to streamline model deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
• Continuously improve experimentation velocity by building frameworks and tools for A/B testing, causal inference, and rapid iteration

• Master or PhD in a quantitative subject (Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Operations Research, or relevant work experience)
• 5+ years of related industry experience in the data science domain
• Expertise in Python or Java with and the ability to write performant production-quality code, familiarity with SQL, knowledge of Spark and cloud data environments (e.g. AWS, Databricks). Experienced in building production-level data engineering pipelines.
• Experience building and scaling machine learning models in business applications using large amounts of data. Experienced in search domain.
• Ability to communicate and explain data science concepts to diverse audiences, craft a compelling story
• Focus on business practicality and the 80/20 rule; very high bar for output quality, but recognize the business benefit of "having something now" vs "perfection sometime in the future"
• Agile development mindset, appreciating the benefit of constant iteration and improvement

Compensation
At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. To support this goal, the baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range, but in turn we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidate's skills, expertise, or experience. In Canada, we have one geographic pay zone. For this role, our current base pay range for new hires in this zone is:
188,100 - 245,575 CAD
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