Senior Principal Architect, Rovo Experiences & Growth

Work180; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Atlassian offers a flexible work approach, allowing office, home, or hybrid arrangements for employees across the globe. The Rovo Experiences & Growth org leads customer-facing AI experiences across Chat, Search, Growth, and Apps, delivering scalable, trusted experiences for users worldwide.

We seek senior engineers with 15+ years of software engineering experience who can mentor teams, architect distributed systems, and drive multi-year initiatives that impact product outcomes.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in software engineering, with deep expertise in platform and product engineering at scale.
• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills; able to influence and partner across teams.
• Deep product engineering background, ideally with experience in platform environments at scale.
• Full stack experience preferred, or strong back-end skills with front-end capability.
• Proven ability to architect, build, and operate large-scale, distributed systems and user-facing applications.
• Strong product mindset and UX sensibility.
• Experience leading multi-year, cross-org technical initiatives that drive business outcomes.
• Passion for innovation, continuous improvement, and fostering an inclusive, high-performing engineering environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical strategy and architecture across Rovo Chat, Rovo Search, Growth, and Rovo Apps & Clients, ensuring scalable, reliable, secure, and cohesive experiences.
• Shape the convergence of Search and Chat, creating shared patterns and capabilities for multi-step interactions.
• Drive development of rich, reusable experience foundations across Atlassian products and third-party tools to reduce fragmentation.
• Partner with product, design, data science, ML, and engineering leaders to define and deliver a roadmap of high-impact Rovo experiences.
• Enable sustainable growth by creating technical foundations for rapid experimentation, contextual activation, personalization, measurement, and continuous improvement.
• Lead complex, cross-organizational initiatives, managing technical negotiations and dependencies with long-term strategic thinking.
• Raise the bar for quality, performance, trust, and operational excellence across Rovo’s experiences.
• Standardize and mechanize how AI experiences are developed and deployed toward scalable, composable approaches.
• Mentor senior engineers, influence engineering culture, and champion technical excellence and inclusive collaboration.

Skills

Technical strategy

Architecture

Cross-org initiatives

Mentoring

Communication

Full stack

Product mindset

Job description

Atlassian offers a flexible work approach, allowing office, home, or hybrid arrangements for employees across the globe. The Rovo Experiences & Growth org leads customer-facing AI experiences across Chat, Search, Growth, and Apps, delivering scalable, trusted experiences for users worldwide.

We seek senior engineers with 15+ years of software engineering experience who can mentor teams, architect distributed systems, and drive multi-year initiatives that impact product outcomes.