After Atlassian
- 6%Founded something8
- 22%Joined a startup28
- 33%Joined a big company43
- 39%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Atlassian most often go to Meta, Google and Amazon. Of them, 6% found something next and 22% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 3m
Not Atlassian's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 278 people on a map of 67,181, No. 84 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 2780.4% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 14753% of the people here
- Moved on
- 13147% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 3mmiddle half 1y 3m to 4y
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Meta. Most leave for Meta (10% of recorded departures).
64 of 290 recorded arrivals shown, 226 more from 205 other companies31 of 135 recorded departures shown, 104 more to 94 other companies
The Atlassian mafia
8 of the people who left went straight to a founding role, 6% of those who moved on, half of them within 7 months of leaving. The bars cover the ’19 to ’26 classes; earlier founders still count in the total.
How long people stay
13%<1y
26%1-2y
35%2-4y
22%4-7y
3%7y+
246 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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<3<313
<3014
<3015
4<316
6617
11418
341819
261320
312121
501822
654023
453024
371125
71226
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 323 joined, 176 left.
Caliber
79mediantop 10%85
0Eng Scorer caliber, 150 scored99
there now 78 moved on 82. The people who left score higher than the people still there.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer113
- Software Engineer Intern53
- Senior Software Engineer45
- Software Engineer II18
- Machine Learning Engineer15
- Principal Software Engineer10
- Data Engineer9
- Senior Engineering Manager9
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 5% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 7%Exceptional or strong11 people
- 33%Solid50 people
- 55%Emerging83 people
- 4%Unproven6 people
150 of the 278 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
11 of the 150 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 7%. A tier is the band a caliber score falls in, so this is the same measurement as the median on the caliber card, opened up. A tier holding fewer than 3 people is printed with the one next to it, because that few is a person rather than a pattern.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
45%Titles that rose81 of 181 classified people
- 45%Rose81 people
- 49%Stayed level89 people
- 6%Fell11 people
181 of the 278 people here had a title that could be placed on the ladder before and after.
A title rose when the last title recorded here sits higher on the ladder than the first. For someone with one title here who then left, it's measured against the first title of their next role. The ladder runs intern, junior, mid, senior, staff or manager, principal, director, VP, then founder or C-level. Titles that match no rung are left out rather than guessed, and product, program and project managers are left out entirely as a different ladder. What's left leans towards people who have left: someone still here on one recorded title has nothing to measure against.
Where they studied
- UC Berkeley15.9%
- Carnegie Mellon10.9%
- Georgia Tech8.3%
- Stanford5.1%
- UCLA3.6%
- UC Davis2.9%
- UIUC2.5%
- UC San Diego2.2%
The 8 most listed schools among the 276 people here with a school on file.
44 of the 276 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 30 list Carnegie Mellon and 23 list Georgia Tech. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
34%have a public GitHub account on their profile
95 of the 278 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts. An account the check missed reads the same as no account, so this is a floor.
31% is the median across the 857 companies that can show this figure.
Where they are now
58% of the people who have worked at Atlassian and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Atlassian
Everyone on the map
- 58%SF Bay Area160 · map 41%
- 17%New York47 · map 18%
- 6%Seattle16 · map 5%
- 4%Los Angeles11 · map 5%
- 4%Washington DC11 · map 13%
- 2%Boston5 · map 2%
- 1%Atlanta3 · map 1%
- 1%Austin3 · map 0.8%
- 8%Somewhere else22
All 278 people who worked at Atlassian list a location, and every share here is over them.
Where they live now, from the profile as it reads today, not where they sat while working at Atlassian: a metro here isn't an office there. The lower strip is the same metros across the whole map.
On the same resumes
Companies that show up most often alongside Atlassian, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 278 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Atlassian: 147 are there now, 131 have moved on.
- Most leave for Meta: 13 people, 10% of recorded departures. Then Google and Amazon.
- Most arrive from Meta: 18 people. Then Amazon and AWS.
- Median tenure at Atlassian: 2y 3m, middle half 1y 3m to 4y.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Atlassian, 6% went to a founder title next, 22% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 33% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 79 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 150 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 44 of the 276 people here with one on file (15.9%). Then Carnegie Mellon (30).
- 58% of the 278 people here who list a location live in SF Bay Area today, against 41% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 34% of the 278 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 81 rose, 89 stayed level, 11 fell, out of the 181 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder before and after.
About this data: built from 352,028 jobs across 67,181 engineers in the Zelcast network and Eng Scorer reads, updated September 30, 2026. A move counts when the next role starts within 24 months of leaving. Companies under 20 people on the map aren't shown, and destinations under 3 people fold into the totals. Caliber is the Eng Scorer score.
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