Capabilities Owned
Enterprise search, service management, commerce, data residency, customer success, AI platform (Rovo), cloud infrastructure
The Bengaluru R&D centre contributes to Atlassian's highest-value product workstreams. The team leads Atlassian Service Management globally; Bengaluru engineers are core to enterprise search and Rovo, Atlassian's AI knowledge and agent platform. Commerce and data residency teams support global enterprise customers. The India operation also contributes to Atlassian's cloud platform architecture and customer success engineering. Atlassian Intelligence, the AI layer across Jira, Confluence, and Loom, draws on work built partly from Bengaluru.
Leadership Depth
Rajeev Rajan (CTO, Atlassian) and Avani Prabhakar (CPO, Atlassian) inaugurated the September 2025 Bengaluru R&D Centre personally
CTO and CPO-level inaugurations of the Bengaluru R&D centre signal that India sits at the core of Atlassian's product strategy, not its support layer. Rajeev Rajan explicitly named Bengaluru 'at the heart of this growth' and described the facility as a symbol of investment in the future of distributed work. Avani Prabhakar framed it as a destination built for how Atlassian works 'today and tomorrow.' The India operation reports into Atlassian's global product and engineering hierarchy rather than a separate GCC or shared-services structure.
ESG & DEI Signals
Team Anywhere policy; employees across nearly every Indian state; biophilic campus design with 10,800 live plants; wellness and outdoor sports infrastructure
Atlassian's Team Anywhere policy allows India employees to work from home, the office, or any combination, extending Atlassian's talent reach beyond Bengaluru's urban core. The September 2025 Bengaluru campus was designed with wellness as a primary brief: 10,800 live plants, a 280-seat cafe, an outdoor sports court, collaboration studios, and flexible workstations. The distributed hiring model has resulted in Atlassian having employees in nearly every Indian state, an unusual geographic distribution for a product GCC.
Second HQ Mandate
September 2025: Atlassian opens 2 lakh+ sq ft R&D centre in Bengaluru, its third global R&D hub; Atlassian Service Management revenue leadership traced to India team
The September 2025 Bengaluru R&D Centre is four times the size of the previous office, built explicitly to deepen Atlassian's India R&D presence. India is Atlassian's third R&D hub globally after Australia and the United States, with the Bengaluru team leading development of the company's fastest-growing product. The AUD 6.3 billion cumulative sales figure for Atlassian Service Management since 2018 reflects work done partly by the India team. Atlassian's AI platform, Rovo, now counts 3.5 million monthly active users globally, with Bengaluru contributing to its knowledge graph and agent architecture.
Tech Stack
Java, Python, Kotlin, Scala, TypeScript, React, GraphQL, Kubernetes, AWS, distributed systems, knowledge graphs, LLM tooling, CI/CD pipelines
Atlassian's India engineering stack reflects a cloud-native, enterprise-grade product environment. Java and Kotlin power backend services across Jira and Confluence; Python supports data engineering and AI tooling for Rovo. Frontend work uses React and TypeScript. The platform layer runs on Kubernetes and AWS. Knowledge graph engineering for Atlassian's Teamwork Graph requires graph database expertise and distributed systems architecture. LLM integration and AI agent development for Rovo is a growing workstream. Engineering teams practice rigorous CI/CD, with Atlassian's own Bitbucket Pipelines and Jira used internally as production tools.
Parent Company Rank
NASDAQ: TEAM; Australian-American multinational; FY2025 revenue USD 5.2B; ~13,813 global employees; #1 in ITSM; Jira, Confluence, Loom, Trello, Rovo
Atlassian Corporation is one of the world's largest enterprise software companies by revenue, listed on NASDAQ as TEAM. FY2025 revenue reached USD 5.2 billion, up 22% year-on-year. The product portfolio spans project tracking (Jira), knowledge management (Confluence), video messaging (Loom), visual collaboration (Trello), and AI platform (Rovo). Atlassian ranked #1 on Fortune's The Future 50 list for 2024. As of June 30, 2025, the company had 13,813 full-time employees globally, with India representing its largest non-Australian, non-US workforce.