About the Position

We're seeking a Senior Principal Engineer - Jira Platform to join our team at Atlassian, shaping the future of enterprise-scale data management and teamwork.

About 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

Own the technical evolution and long-term architecture of Jira Data Management, shaping strategy for enterprise-scale data movement, governance, resiliency, and data health.
Lead the largest architectural initiatives across Jira Platform, from strategy and milestones through delivery, adoption, and customer outcomes.
Define and drive a 12–24 month roadmap for shared platform primitives, identify gaps, and make clear trade-offs on priorities.
Raise standards for reliability, performance, observability, security, and operational excellence across systems handling critical enterprise data.
Provide hands-on technical leadership via design reviews, deep investigations, incident reviews, and high-risk problem solving while mentoring Principal and senior engineers.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
12+ years of experience developing large scale distributed systems.
4+ years of experience providing architectural oversight and technical leadership.

Preferred Qualifications

Proven experience at department-level: shaping technical direction across teams and influencing architecture beyond a single service.
Track record of leading major architectural initiatives and turning multi-year strategy into incremental delivery and measurable outcomes.
Extensive experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems, data streaming platforms and event-driven architecture.
Broad knowledge of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS and hands-on experience with public clouds (ideally AWS and/or GCP).
Fluency in any modern object-oriented programming language (e.g., Java, Golang, Python, Javascript, etc.) and in architecture patterns for distributed systems.
Experience mentoring senior engineers, leading technical reviews, and improving engineering quality and productivity.
Quick learner who excels in ambiguous environments.

We Offer

Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits.

About the Company

At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Our software products help teams all over the planet and our solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through our tools makes what may be impossible alone, possible together.

We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.

To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh.

In line with local law, identity verification (which may include use of biometric data) is a condition of employment with Atlassian for employment fraud purposes.

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Senior Principal Engineer - Jira Platform

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