Senior Principal Engineer, Identity

Atlassian•Mountain View, CA

2d•Remote

About The Position

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. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company. We are looking for an experienced software engineer/architect to join the Identity group within Atlassian. Atlassian’s Identity and Access Management (IAM) system is a comprehensive framework that is designed to facilitate authentication, authorization, and user management across all Atlassian cloud products thereby enabling user-centric collaboration scenarios in a highly secure manner. We're looking for an engineer who can help evolve the Identity platform to better meet the needs of large enterprise customers as well as understand the evolving security landscape in the context of Agentic AI. The role will report directly to the Head of Engineering for Identity. This is a remote-friendly opportunity.

Requirements

12+ years of experience building software, with 4+ years in an architect/principal role working across teams
Expert-level proficiency with 5+ years experience in Identity and Access Management systems
Broad experience architecting, designing, building large-scale systems (for enterprises) with multiple dependencies
Passion for building quality solutions and up-keeping quality standards.
Success with building, expressing, and pitching a technical vision to stakeholders.
Experience with collaboration with an ecosystem of teams
Success with leading the long-term strategy for software architecture
Experience with building and operating large scale, high availability, high reliability services
Experience in operational requirements and common challenges of software systems
Experience working on security and compliance-related features
A desire to influence the company's technical direction
An ability and desire to mentor and coach engineers.
Proficiency in spoken and written English

Responsibilities

Shape the forward-looking technical direction and long-term architecture for the Identity Platform
Collaborate with product, engineering and design leaders to understand and influence the broader department level long term strategy
Build a technical strategy to address the security and compliance needs of the full spectrum of customers (from small and medium to the largest enterprises).
Ensure that the technical strategy you build is aligned with the technical strategy of Atlassian products and platforms
Partner with principal engineers and architects from other teams and drive exploration of large-scale projects spanning multiple teams
Provide pragmatic and balanced advice to the engineering leaders to invest in the long term architecture while also servicing the current systems with high quality
Improve, through example, the quality of software construction and meaningful code reviews in an agile environment.
Be a role model for, and influence a large team of engineers at multiple seniority levels all the way from grads to principal engineers, and mentor engineers across the teams.
Be influential within your team and work with peers and senior leaders to define and revise the standards for operational excellence across Atlassian.
Mentor, hire and develop other engineers.