Principal Data Scientist
Seattle, WAJob$171–269K/yrPosted 2w agoStill listed today
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Job overview
The Principal Data Scientist collaborates with product and business partners to address strategic challenges through quantitative analysis, experimentation, and data presentation. The role develops and tests hypotheses, identifies opportunities to improve products and business outcomes, and influences roadmaps with insights and recommendations. It also measures product efforts, monitors key metrics, and communicates findings through storytelling to teams and company leadership.
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Overview
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.
Responsibilities
In this role, you will:
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Collaborate on a variety of product and business problems with a diverse set of cross-functional partners and become a trusted strategic partner through the structure and clarity of your work.
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Apply technical expertise with quantitative analysis, experimentation, and the presentation of data to develop strategies for our business and help solve the business's biggest challenges.
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Focus on developing hypotheses through analytical approaches, different methodologies, frameworks, and technical approaches to test them.
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Define, understand, and test opportunities to improve the products and business and influence roadmaps through insights and recommendations.
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Partner with cross-functional teams to inform, influence, and execute strategy decisions
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Identify and measure the success of product efforts through forecasting and monitoring of key product metrics to understand trends.
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You will use data to shape product development, quantify new opportunities, identify upcoming challenges, and ensure the products we build bring value to people, businesses, and Atlassian.
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You will use storytelling techniques to communicate insights broadly, including to company leadership teams.
Compensation
At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. We follow consistent hiring practices and account for each candidate's skills, knowledge, and experience when setting base pay within the range. Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter. This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
Pay Ranges
In The United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are: Zone A: $206,100 - $269,075 Zone B: $185,490 - $242,168 Zone C: $171,063 - $223,332
Qualifications
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. In line with local law, identity verification (which may include use of biometric data) is a condition of employment with Atlassian for employment fraud purposes.
How this job compares
Set against the 5,025 open Data Scientist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$171–269K/yr
- Washington median$143–215K/yr214 salary ranges
- US median$135–212K/yr3,851 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $220K, is 19% above the Washington median midpoint ($185K) — in the top quarter of Data Scientist salary ranges in Washington.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 233 open Data Scientist jobs in Washington and 5,025 across the US. 6% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Washington
- Amazon66 open
- Google20 open
- Microsoft Corporation13 open
- Experience
- Data Scientist postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 7 years (4,324 postings).
- Education
- 2,441 of the 5,025 open Data Scientist jobs (49%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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