Principal Software Engineer - AI & Cloud Tech Leader

Atlassian Corp.; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 189,000 - 274,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing resources

Paid volunteer days

Equity

Job summary

Atlassian in the United States seeks a senior systems engineer to tackle large-scale problems from design to launch, shaping the next generation of the Atlassian platform.

You will provide technical leadership on high-impact projects, drive architectural standards across teams, mentor junior engineers, and champion engineering excellence while collaborating across the organisation to raise the bar.

Qualifications

• Deep experience in systems engineering at scale with regards to testing, reliability, security, and observability.
• Excellent communication skills in written and verbal forms, and an ability to communicate complex technical issues to a range of technical and non-technical audiences (management, peers).
• Experience with collaborating with and mentoring junior members of the team.
• Consider the customer impact when making technical decisions.
• Familiarity with A/B testing techniques.

Responsibilities

• Regularly tackle the largest and most complex problems on the team, from technical design to launch
• Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects and determine plans-of-attack on large projects
• Routinely tackle complex architecture challenges and apply architectural standards and start using them on new projects
• Be a champion across the Atlassian organisation for continually raising the technical bar and evangelizing a high technical standard
• Partner across Engineering teams to take on company-wide initiatives spanning multiple projects
• Transfer your depth of knowledge and share best engineering practices to improve engineering excellence
• Mentor and grow the next generation of technical leaders at Atlassian

Skills

Systems engineering at scale

Strong communication

Mentoring juniors

A/B testing familiarity

Education

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

Job description

Atlassian in the United States seeks a senior systems engineer to tackle large-scale problems from design to launch, shaping the next generation of the Atlassian platform.

You will provide technical leadership on high-impact projects, drive architectural standards across teams, mentor junior engineers, and champion engineering excellence while collaborating across the organisation to raise the bar.