Senior Atlassian Platform Engineer

DoorDash DoorDash · Consumer · New York, NY · 242 IT

Senior Atlassian Platform Engineer responsible for administering, integrating, and evolving the Atlassian toolset, including a migration from Freshservice to Jira Service Management. The role involves building automation with GitHub, Terraform, and Python, supporting core enterprise platforms, and driving the adoption of AI tooling in IT operations.

What you'd actually do

  1. Administer, integrate, and optimize our Atlassian suite (Jira, Jira Service Management, Confluence) and co-lead the migration from Freshservice
  2. Design and execute tool migrations and improvements across internal business functions
  3. Build and maintain automation using GitHub, Terraform, YAML, and Python
  4. Support core enterprise platforms including Google Workspace, Okta, and Slack
  5. Partner with stakeholders across IT, Eng, HR, Finance, and Security to ensure tools are aligned to business needs

Skills

Required

  • Atlassian administration experience
  • Jira
  • Jira Service Management
  • Confluence
  • Atlassian Cloud
  • Atlassian REST APIs
  • service accounts
  • scripting-based automation (Python or similar)
  • infrastructure as code (Terraform)
  • scripting languages (Python, YAML)
  • Google Workspace
  • Okta
  • Slack
  • communication
  • autonomy
  • technical project management

Nice to have

  • follow-the-sun support models
  • distributed on-call coverage
  • IT service management frameworks
  • Freshservice
  • ITSM platforms

What the JD emphasized

  • 4–7 years of hands-on Atlassian administration experience in enterprise environments
  • deep expertise in Jira, Jira Service Management, Confluence, and Atlassian Cloud — including configuration, integration, and migration
  • genuinely excited about applying AI to real business workflows — not just experimenting with it, but shipping it