Senior Principal Engineer

Work180; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

At Atlassian in San Francisco, employees can work in the office, from home, or a hybrid arrangement. We hire people in countries where we have a legal entity.

We are hiring a Senior Principal Engineer for the AI Foundations team, responsible for making AI work well across engineering: how we measure it, the context we feed it, and the compute it runs on. You will lead by doing and build foundational systems to enable AI at scale.

Qualifications

• Experience with modern AI systems and developer tooling.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical vision for how Atlassian enables and builds AI across the software development lifecycle, and turn it into infrastructure teams adopt.
• Stay hands on. Prototype the hardest parts yourself, write code, and set the engineering bar others build to. At this level you lead by doing.
• Build the foundational systems that make AI effective for every engineer, including how we measure whether AI works, give it the right context, and run it reliably and affordably at scale.
• Give engineers and leaders real signal instead of hype, so the company can see where AI genuinely helps.
• Partner across engineering and product teams to shape both the tools we use internally and the AI capabilities we ship to customers.
• Decide when to buy a proven solution, when to build alongside our product teams, and when a problem deserves something purpose built.
• Grow the talent around you. Mentor senior engineers, align principals across the organization, and raise the ceiling for what the team believes is possible.

Skills

AI systems

DevEx tooling

Job description

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.

Dev Infra builds the tools, platforms, and infrastructure that every engineer at Atlassian uses to ship. We are hiring a Senior Principal Engineer for our AI Foundations team, the group responsible for making AI work well across our engineering: how we measure it, the context we feed it, and the compute it runs on.

The reach of this work is unusual. Because Dev Infra builds and stress tests the same class of developer tools Atlassian sells, what you build shapes both how Atlassian ships software and what Atlassian ships to millions of developers.

In this role, you will:

• Set the technical vision for how Atlassian enables and builds AI across the software development lifecycle, and turn it into infrastructure teams adopt.

• Stay hands on. Prototype the hardest parts yourself, write code, and set the engineering bar others build to. At this level you lead by doing.

• Build the foundational systems that make AI effective for every engineer, including how we measure whether AI works, give it the right context, and run it reliably and affordably at scale.

• Give engineers and leaders real signal instead of hype, so the company can see where AI genuinely helps.

• Partner across engineering and product teams to shape both the tools we use internally and the AI capabilities we ship to customers.

• Decide when to buy a proven solution, when to build alongside our product teams, and when a problem deserves something purpose built.

• Grow the talent around you. Mentor senior engineers, align principals across the organization, and raise the ceiling for what the team believes is possible.

Nice to have:

• Hands on experience with modern AI systems such as large language models, agents, or AI developer tools.

• Background in developer experience, developer productivity, or the tooling and infrastructure behind CI and CD.

Benefits & Perks

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 Atlassian

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..

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