Senior Systems Engineer — AI Code Metrics Daemon

Atlassian; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing resources

Paid volunteer days

Job summary

Atlassian is seeking a Systems Engineer to build observability for AI-assisted software development. The role includes designing pipelines and working directly with Git to collect AI-generated code data. Ideal candidates will have systems engineering experience, particularly with production systems, and a passion for developer tools.

Applicants should be comfortable with Go and possess a strong understanding of Git internals. Atlassian offers a range of perks, including health and wellbeing resources and opportunities for community engagement.

Qualifications

• Strong systems engineer with experience in backend or OS internals.
• Experience with concurrent, long-running, low-level software.
• Ability to build fast, reliable production systems.

Responsibilities

• Build systems that detect AI-generated code across Git workflows.
• Design pipelines for capturing developer activity data.
• Work with Git internals for data collection.

Skills

Systems engineering

Concurrency handling

Production systems experience

Product intuition

Developer tools knowledge

Tools

Go

Git

SQLite

Job description

Working at Atlassian

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.

Overview

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.

What We're Looking For

• 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 the real requirement.
• 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.

Benefits & 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 go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits.

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.

To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh.