[Hiring] Senior Researcher @Atlassian

Role Description

We're looking for a Software Engineering Leadership Advisor to join the DX team as a practitioner voice and executive-level advisor. The ideal candidate is someone who has lived the problems our audience faces—someone who has scaled engineering organizations, navigated the transition to AI-assisted development, and made real decisions about developer productivity with real consequences.

• Work within our research team to translate data and findings into practitioner-grounded commentary, frameworks, and guidance that resonates with senior engineering leaders.
• Represent DX externally at executive dinners, on conference stages, on panels, and in advisory conversations with our largest customers.
• Think of this role as part industry advisor, part executive coach, part practitioner-in-residence.

Responsibilities

• Practitioner commentary and thought leadership:
  • Provide practitioner-grounded commentary on research findings, data analyses, and frameworks produced by the research team.
  • Co-author and contribute to flagship reports, essays, and talks.
  • Develop and contribute to practitioner frameworks, playbooks, and maturity models drawn from your own experience and your network's collective wisdom.
• Executive advisory and customer engagement:
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to DX's largest customers and prospects.
  • Lead workshops, advisory sessions, and executive briefings.
  • Participate in customer inquiries and consultations.
  • Build and maintain relationships with senior engineering leaders across the industry.
• External presence and industry influence:
  • Represent DX on conference stages, executive panels, industry podcasts, and at invite-only dinners and roundtables.
  • Be a visible, recognized voice in the developer productivity and engineering leadership community.
  • Build DX's reputation as the place where senior engineering leaders go for guidance.
• Shipping cadence:
  • Produce two "small ships" per month: quick, high-signal pieces that capture one strong insight or idea.
  • Produce one "big ship" per quarter: a flagship report or talk that combines data, practitioner perspective, and actionable guidance.

Qualifications

• You've led engineering organizations or platform/developer experience teams at scale.
• You are known and respected by senior engineering leaders.
• You've been on stages, on panels, on podcasts, or in rooms where senior engineering leaders gather.
• You can provide sharp, credible commentary on data and research.
• You're a strong writer and communicator.
• You're opinionated but intellectually honest.
• You're looking for a role where you can shape how an entire industry thinks about developer productivity and AI.
• Combine your real-world experience with data from hundreds of engineering organizations.
• Work alongside world-class researchers and a team that takes the craft of insight seriously.
• Build a body of work you're proud of.

Benefits

• Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you and your family.
• Health and wellbeing resources.
• Paid volunteer days.
• To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits .