Atlassian-posted 1 day ago
Full-time • Mid Level
Remote • San Francisco, CA
5,001-10,000 employees

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. Responsibilities What's the Senior Principal Engineer role? As an engineer well into your career, we know you're an expert at what you do and have a breadth of experience across multiple backend technologies. You take pride in working across departments to deliver transformational solutions that scale an entire company. You enjoy working with other Principals and more junior members look up to and sharing your expertise with others... That's why we're placing a heavy emphasis on leaning on your expertise to take on a high level of responsibility while being a role model and mentor to others on the team.

  • Collaborate with partner teams and internal customers to help define technical direction and OKRs for the Central AI organization.
  • Regularly tackle the largest and most complex problems on the team, from technical design to implementation and launch
  • Partner across engineering teams to take on company-wide initiatives spanning multiple projects
  • Routinely tackle complex architecture challenges and apply architectural standards and start using them on new projects
  • Work across senior engineering and product leaders to build strategy and design solutions to earn customers trust and business
  • Own key OKRs and end-to-end outcomes of critical projects in a microservices environment
  • Champion best practices and innovative techniques for scalability, reliability, and performance optimizations.
  • Own engineering and operational excellence for the health of our systems and processes.
  • Proactively drive opportunities for continuous improvements and own key operational metrics.
  • Continually drive developer productivity initiatives to ensure that we unleash the potential of our own teams.
  • Help hire and mentor engineers to build an open, innovative and operationally responsible culture.
  • 12+ years of experience in backend software development, with a focus on distributed systems and large-scale storage solutions.
  • Proficiency in system design, performance optimization, and cost-efficient architecture for exabyte-scale storage.
  • Expertise in at least one major backend programming language (Kotlin, Java, Go, Rust, or Python).
  • Experience leading technical strategy and architectural decisions in large, multi-team engineering organizations.
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems principles, including consistency models, replication, sharding, and consensus algorithms
  • Experience mentoring senior engineers and driving high-impact engineering initiatives.
  • 5+ years of hands on experience related to one of these systems: web crawler, link graph mining, web data ingress system, scheduler system.
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • Atlassians can choose where they work – whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two.
  • health and wellbeing resources
  • paid volunteer days
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