Staff Software Engineer | Observability @ Atlassian
Blue Mountains, Australia · AEST (UTC+10) · Remote-first
$ whoami Jordan Simonovski $ role --current Staff Software Engineer, Atlassian Observability $ mission Build high-scale, high-signal observability platforms and operator workflows that reduce MTTR and improve debugging UX.
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- On a mission to kill3pill.
- Exploring LangFuse and AI Observability.
- Building operator UX patterns around Grafana Scenes and AI-assisted query workflows.
- Open to Staff/Principal platform and observability roles.
- Shifted observability strategy toward wide events and scaled ClickHouse to
100TB/day+. - Built and operated Grafana Tempo tracing infrastructure at
180TB/day. - Shipped centralised debugging UX with Grafana Scenes across multiple data sources.
- Designed Atlassian's first service map by covered experience for faster triage.
- Standardised Kubernetes delivery patterns with reusable Helm-based tooling.
- Organiser at Monitoring.Sydney.
- Organiser for SRE and DevOps events, including DevOpsDays Sydney and SRECon APAC.
- Technical reviewer for Observability Engineering, 2nd Edition.