Principal Data Scientist

Atlassian is hiring a Principal Data Scientist in Greater Kolkata Area, India. The details below summarise the employer's own listing; applications happen on the original posting, not on GetFirstJob.

What the work involves

• Does the challenge of scaling a fast-growing company with the latest in data science and AI methodologies and tooling excite you?
• Using your business instincts and creativity, you will leverage your business, data science, analytics and AI acumen to support a highly strategic, mission-critical initiative for Service Collection
• This role aims to leverage analytics, data science and AI/ML to identify opportunities, build tools and solutions that will influence our Service Collection roadmap
• If you love blazing new innovative trails, making the complex simple and driving decision-making speed across business units with data insights, then read on!
• 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
• Influence strategy & important decisions around Service Collection by blending end-to-end business acumen with advanced data science methodologies

What they are looking for

• Atlassian is looking for a Principal Data Scientist to be the wizard who will uncover valuable insights from large amounts of data which will help the business improve our products
• We're looking for someone with superb business instincts, comfort with executive stakeholders, proficiency in statistical analyses, expertise in AI/LLM, experience partnering with cross-functional teams and mentoring junior data scientists
• Experience applying your Data Science skills to identify and lead projects which have had impact on business strategy and performance
• 9+ years of experience in Data Science or related fields
• 10+ years experience with a post-graduate degree in a quantitative discipline like Statistics, Mathematics, Econometrics, Computer science)
• Expertise in applying a broad variety of ML methods including LLM to solve business problems and a strong sense of when to apply them to the problem at hand
• Expertise in SQL and in another data science programming language (e.g Python, R) with expertise in libraries like Pandas, Numpy, Scikit-learn etc
• A very high bar for output quality, while balancing "having something now" vs

Pay and dates

The listing does not state pay. The source page shows a relative posting age rather than an exact posting date; this role was first seen and checked as open on 4 November 2026. The source page showed it as posted “2 weeks ago” when captured; that is a relative stamp, not an exact date.

How to apply

Apply on the listing where the employer published this role: Principal Data Scientist at Atlassian. We found this listing via linkedin.com; it was still open when we checked on 4 November 2026. If the posting has closed or the link fails, the role may have been filled.