Remote Senior Atlassian Platform Engineer

Social Discovery Ventures; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote opportunity

Vacation 28 days

Wellness days 7 per year

Referral bonuses up to $5000

Training stipend 50%

English lessons discount

Health benefits up to $1000 per year

Equipment provided

Gamified gratitude system

Job summary

Social Discovery Group is seeking a Senior Atlassian Platform Engineer to administer Jira Server/Data Center, Confluence, and Atlassian Cloud environments. You will configure workflows, permissions, dashboards, and automations, while optimizing performance and governance.

You’ll collaborate with Infra, SRE, DBA, and engineering teams to resolve issues, automate tasks with ScriptRunner and REST API, and extend scripting with Groovy/Python/Bash as needed.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience with Jira Server / Jira Data Center and Confluence administration.
• Strong hands-on experience with Jira including workflows, permissions, custom fields, users, groups, dashboards, JQL, and reporting.
• Experience troubleshooting Jira Server issues: logs, indexing, performance bottlenecks, slow queries, plugins, and integrations.
• Understanding of Jira architecture, JVM basics, indexing, and performance impact of customizations.
• Experience working with REST API, ScriptRunner, webhooks, and administrative automation.
• Ability to write and maintain Groovy, Python, or Bash scripts for operational tasks.
• Experience with Jira / Confluence Cloud administration will be a plus.
• Fluent Russian and intermediate English level.

Responsibilities

• Administer Jira Server / Data Center, Confluence, and Atlassian Cloud environments.
• Configure and support workflows, permissions, dashboards, JQL, automations, integrations, and plugins.
• Monitor Jira performance, troubleshoot issues, and improve platform stability and reliability.
• Support maintenance, upgrades, housekeeping, and incident resolution.
• Improve Jira governance and reduce configuration debt.
• Automate routine administrative tasks using ScriptRunner, REST API, and scripting tools.
• Collaborate with Infra, SRE, DBA, and engineering teams to resolve system and performance issues.

Skills

Jira administration

Confluence administration

JQL & dashboards

REST API

ScriptRunner

Groovy/Python/Bash scripting

Jira Cloud admin

Russian language

English proficiency

Tools

Jira

Confluence

REST API

ScriptRunner

Job description

Social Discovery Group is seeking a Senior Atlassian Platform Engineer to administer Jira Server/Data Center, Confluence, and Atlassian Cloud environments. You will configure workflows, permissions, dashboards, and automations, while optimizing performance and governance.

You’ll collaborate with Infra, SRE, DBA, and engineering teams to resolve issues, automate tasks with ScriptRunner and REST API, and extend scripting with Groovy/Python/Bash as needed.