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Principal Developer - StarRocks

Atlassian

3.5

(8)

Sydney, Australia (Remote)

Why you should apply for a job to Atlassian:

  • 75% would recommend this company to other women
  • 57% say the CEO supports gender diversity
    • Ratings are based on anonymous reviews by Fairygodboss members.
  • Atlassian supports remote work, allowing employees to choose their preferred locations for increased flexibility.
  • Atlassian fosters diversity with 9 ERGs, focusing on Women+ for career growith, inclusive culture, and community impact.
  • Up to 20 weeks in supplemental wage payment the first year following birth, adoption/fostering, or parentage via surrogacy.

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    Position summary

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    • Plan and execute capacity planning, scaling, and resource management for multi-tenant environments.

    • Develop and enforce backup, disaster recovery, and upgrade strategies with minimal downtime.

    • Implement security best practices: AuthN/AuthZ, encryption, auditing, and data masking.

    • Collaborate with engineering and SRE teams to define SLOs, observability dashboards, and alerting for StarRocks infrastructure.

    • Proven experience architecting and operating StarRocks (or similar OLAP) clusters at scale (10B+ events/day, TBPB data).

    • Deep understanding of StarRocks FE/BE architecture, storage engines, compaction, and cost-based optimizer.

    • Expertise in schema design, partitioning, bucketing, and index/encoding strategies for hot/cold data tiers.

    • Strong troubleshooting skills: root cause analysis, performance profiling, and incident response.

    • Experience with ingestion pipelines (Kafka/Kinesis), exactly-once semantics, and CDC-based upserts.

    • Familiarity with materialized view design, refresh policies, and query rewrite mechanics.

    • Operational excellence: backup/restore, rolling upgrades, resource governance, and multi-tenant management.

    • Security and compliance: LDAP/OIDC integration, RBAC, encryption, and sensitive data handling.

    • Excellent communication skills; ability to diagram architectures and explain trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

    Nice to Have

    • Experience with other OLAP systems (ClickHouse, Druid, Pinot) and comparative benchmarking.
    • Contributions to StarRocks open source or related communities.
    • Cloud-native deployment experience (Kubernetes, autoscaling, infrastructure-as-code).

    Why you should apply for a job to Atlassian:

  • 75% would recommend this company to other women
  • 57% say the CEO supports gender diversity
    • Ratings are based on anonymous reviews by Fairygodboss members.
  • Atlassian supports remote work, allowing employees to choose their preferred locations for increased flexibility.
  • Atlassian fosters diversity with 9 ERGs, focusing on Women+ for career growith, inclusive culture, and community impact.
  • Up to 20 weeks in supplemental wage payment the first year following birth, adoption/fostering, or parentage via surrogacy.