Data Engineer Intern, 2027 Summer U.S.

Atlassian Corp.; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 77,000 - 88,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing resources

Volunteer days

Career development

Job summary

Atlassian’s Data Engineering internship in Seattle offers hands-on training, mentorship, and exposure to analytics platforms. You will contribute to data quality, measurement, and scalable pipelines while collaborating with product teams to drive insights and better decision-making.

The 12-week program runs Summer 2027, with consideration for your enrolled status and graduation timeline. You will report to a Data Engineering Manager and gain practical experience in a world-class data

Qualifications

• Pursuing a 4-year bachelor’s degree and returning to the program after internship.
• Strong interest in data engineering and software development.

Responsibilities

• Define metrics for product analytics and data quality.
• Instrument logging to capture data events.
• Transform data for analytics and reporting.
• Ensure data governance and enablement across teams.
• Develop scalable data pipelines and improve efficiency.
• Demonstrate proficiency in Python or similar OO language.
• Show interest in SaaS data architectures and enterprise software concepts.

Skills

Python

SQL

Relational databases

Data structures

SaaS knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree in progress

Job description

Interns | Seattle, United States | Remote, Remote |

Working at Atlassian
Atlassians have the flexibility to work where they can collaborate most effectively with their team, whether at home, one of our global offices, or both. We hire in any country where we have a legal entity. Learn how we work at go.atlassian.com/distributed .

Your Future Org

Atlassian’s Intern program combines hands-on technical training, professional growth opportunities, dedicated mentorship, and strong social connections. This holistic approach empowers students to hit the ground running and sets them up for a successful and impactful career at Atlassian!

This role is located in the Seattle hub. You must be able to work from this hub to qualify.

This position is not eligible for F1 and J1 students. It is not available for any work sponsorship.

Our paid internship program runs for 12 weeks between May/June - August/September 2027.

Your Future Team

As an intern in our world-class Data Engineering team, you'll influence product teams, inform Dat Science and Analytics Platform teams, and partner with data consumers and products to ensure qualify and usefulness of data assets. You will help strategize measurement, collecting data, and generating insights.

This work will help understand and improve product experience and engagement, improve efficiency and costs, and guide strategy. You'll report to a Data Engineering Manager, and learn from your team mentor who are some of the best Data Engineers in the business.

Data Engineering is a multi-faceted role, where you can have focused or broad set of responsibilities, including:

Define metrics

Instrument logging

Transform data

Ensure data quality, governance, and enablement

Alerting, visualization, and reporting

Develop at scale and improving efficiency

Experience programming with Python, or other related object-oriented programming languages

Have an interest in software engineering demonstrated by previous internships, work experience, projects, or publications

Knowledge of data structures, in particular how they are implemented and how to apply them to meet data challenges

Huge Plus: An understanding of the SaaS business model and data structures or experience in Enterprise Software product development

Proficiency in SQL and relational databases experience

Demonstrated interest in the Data Engineering field through academic coursework, previous work or internship experience, or personal projects

Able to commit to a 12 week full-time (40hrs/week) program during Summer 2027

Currently enrolled full-time in a 4-year bachelor's degree program and returning to the program after the completion of the internship, graduating by August 2028

Compensation

At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable and explainable 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 the United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:

Zone A: $56/hr - $64/hr

Zone B: $51/hr - $58/hr

Zone C: $47/hr - $54/hr

Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.

Benefits and Perks
Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit https://www.atlassian.com/company/careers/earlycareers .

About Atlassian
At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Our software products help teams all over the planet and our solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through our tools makes what may be impossible alone, possible together.

We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.

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