Principal Encryption Software Engineer (Remote)

Atlassian; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Atlassian, a distributed-first company, offers flexibility to work from home, an office, or a mix, with interviews and onboarding conducted virtually. The Senior Software Engineer will lead end-to-end development, emphasize security and scalable architectures, and mentor peers across teams.

The role requires 12+ years in software leadership, proficiency in Java/Python/Kotlin/Go/Scala, and hands-on Cloud security experience on AWS, GCP, or Azure.

Qualifications

• 12+ years experience in multiple hands-on software/technology leadership roles, with end-to-end responsibility through the software development lifecycle.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree (preferably a Computer Science degree or equivalent experience)
• Expertise with one or more prominent languages such as Java, Python, Kotlin, Go, or Scala is required, plus experience in at least one additional language
• Hands‑on experience building encryption, key management, or other security-critical systems at scale
• Strong cloud security expertise, with hands‑on experience on public cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Understanding of the SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS industry and of large-scale distributed systems
• Knowledge to evaluate trade-offs between security, correctness, robustness, performance, space, and time
• Practice in mentoring other engineers and influencing decision makers throughout the organization
• Considers the customer impact when making technical decisions
• Experience in CI (Continuous Integration) and CD (Continuous Deployment)

Responsibilities

• Regularly tackle the largest and most complex problems on the team, from technical design to launch
• Deliver solutions that are used by other teams and products
• Determine plans-of-attack on large projects
• Routinely tackle complex architecture challenges and apply architectural standards and start using them on new projects
• Lead code reviews & documentation as well as take on complex bug fixes, especially on high-risk problems
• Set the standard for thorough, meaningful code reviews
• Partner across engineering teams to take on company-wide initiatives spanning multiple projects
• Transfer your depth of knowledge from your current language to excel as a Software Engineer
• Mentor more junior members of the team

Skills

Java

Python

Kotlin

Go

Scala

Cloud security

Distributed systems

Mentoring engineers

CI/CD

Security architecture

Encryption / key management

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

Atlassian, a distributed-first company, offers flexibility to work from home, an office, or a mix, with interviews and onboarding conducted virtually. The Senior Software Engineer will lead end-to-end development, emphasize security and scalable architectures, and mentor peers across teams.

The role requires 12+ years in software leadership, proficiency in Java/Python/Kotlin/Go/Scala, and hands-on Cloud security experience on AWS, GCP, or Azure.