Senior Principal Engineer, AI Dev Platforms & Sandboxes

Atlassian; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 244,000 - 318,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing resources

Volunteer days

Job summary

Atlassian in Seattle seeks a Senior Principal Engineer to shape the architecture of our Dev AI platforms and autonomous developer initiatives. You will define multi-year technical direction, drive cross-team roadmaps, and deliver reusable platform capabilities across Jira, Bitbucket, and the Atlassian Teamwork Graph.

You will mentor senior engineers, lead complex architectural decisions, and partner with product, security, and platform teams to raise the engineering quality bar while delivering

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading large-scale distributed systems and developer platforms.
• Proven ability to translate vague business needs into architectural roadmaps.
• Strong communication skills for engineers, executives, and partners.
• Experience with secure code execution environments and CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to mentor engineers and drive cross-team collaboration.
• Track record of creating reusable technical capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Define multi-year architectural blueprints and roadmaps for Dev AI platforms.
• Drive architectural decisions balancing reliability, scalability, security, and cost.
• Architect runtimes for autonomous developer agents and sandboxes.
• Guide code-intelligence capabilities grounded in repository context.
• Establish shared libraries and standard patterns across teams.
• Lead incident response and durable platform improvements.
• Mentor engineers and align cross-functional roadmaps.

Skills

Senior technical leadership

Distributed systems

Architectural strategy

Communication skills

Incident response

Tools

microVMs

gVisor

WebAssembly

Vector databases

RAG

Graph databases

Developer platform APIs

Job description

Atlassian in Seattle seeks a Senior Principal Engineer to shape the architecture of our Dev AI platforms and autonomous developer initiatives. You will define multi-year technical direction, drive cross-team roadmaps, and deliver reusable platform capabilities across Jira, Bitbucket, and the Atlassian Teamwork Graph.

You will mentor senior engineers, lead complex architectural decisions, and partner with product, security, and platform teams to raise the engineering quality bar while delivering