Senior Systems Engineer — AI Code Metrics Daemon

Atlassian; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 146,700 - 230,300; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health resources

Paid volunteer days

Equity options

Job summary

Atlassian in San Francisco is seeking a systems engineer to own parts of an observability layer for AI-assisted software development. You will detect and attribute AI-generated code across various workflows, ensuring seamless integration with developer tooling.

The ideal candidate should have a strong background in backend systems, OS internals, and experience with Go programming. Benefits include health resources, paid volunteer days, and competitive compensation.

Qualifications

• Strong systems engineer with backend, OS internals, or developer infrastructure experience.
• Experience with concurrent or low-level software is essential.
• Ability to build fast, reliable production systems.

Responsibilities

• Build core systems detecting AI-generated code at line level.
• Design pipelines for capturing and shipping developer activity.
• Integrate with coding agents via hooks.
• Ensure cross-platform behavior across all major operating systems.

Skills

System engineering

Backend development

OS internals

Developer infrastructure

Go programming

Git internals

Tools

SQLite

Cross-platform development

Job description

Overview

Atlassians can choose where they work – whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity.

We're building the observability layer for AI‑assisted software development, measuring how much of an engineering org's code is actually written by AI coding agents, and attributing every line back to the work that produced it. You'll own major parts of a cross‑platform endpoint agent end‑to‑end: architecture, implementation, and real‑world deployment onto developer machines.

Responsibilities

• Build the core systems that detect and attribute AI‑generated code at the line level across real Git workflows (rebases, cherry‑picks, resets, and all).
• Design reliable pipelines for capturing, classifying, storing, and shipping developer + agent activity from the endpoint.
• Work directly with Git internals (reflog, commit identity across history rewrites, blob‑level attribution) to collect data without interrupting developers.
• Build and maintain integrations with coding agents (Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, Codex, Gemini CLI, and more) via editor/CLI hooks.
• Own cross‑platform behavior across macOS, Linux, and Windows.

Qualifications

• Strong systems engineer – backend, OS internals, endpoint/agent software, or developer infrastructure.
• Experience with Go is preferred, but comfort with concurrent, long‑running, low‑level software is essential.
• Experience building production systems that must be fast, reliable, and invisible to the user.
• High‑agency, high‑responsibility individuals with strong product intuition (you care how developers experience what you build).
• Excited about developer tools and using data to understand how engineers actually work with AI coding agents.
• Bonus: knowledge of Git internals, developer tools/dev infrastructure, endpoint or monitoring agents (EDR, sync clients, telemetry agents), SQLite or embedded storage, or cross‑platform native development.

Compensation and Benefits

This role may be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity. Base pay ranges for new hires in the United States are:

• Zone A: $176,400 – $230,300
• Zone B: $159,300 – $207,975
• Zone C: $146,700 – $191,525

Benefits

Benefits and perks include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and more. To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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.

Accommodation

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.