Senior Principal Engineer, Cloud Data Platform Leader

Atlassian Corp.; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 244,000 - 318,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing resources

Paid volunteer days

Job summary

Atlassian Corp. seeks a Senior Principal Engineer to lead architecture for TDP and DXP across multiple teams in a cloud-agnostic data platform. You will shape compute, streaming, and platform intelligence while guiding reliability, cost, and adoption.

This high-leverage IC role partners with managers, engineers, and product teams across the US, Australia, and India. You will set architectural direction, mentor senior engineers, and drive multi-year strategy to deliver reusable platform

Qualifications

• Senior technical leader with cross-team architecture experience.
• Experience delivering multi-team platform initiatives.
• Strong background in distributed systems, cloud infra, and reliability.
• Ability to convert ambiguous needs into clear architectural plans.
• Experience mentoring engineers and shaping technical direction.

Responsibilities

• Define architectural direction for initiatives spanning multiple teams.
• Establish a clear technical vision, scope, and architectural principles.
• Lead architecture reviews addressing reliability, scalability, security, and cost.
• Provide leadership from strategy through production readiness.
• Mentor senior engineers and grow organizational capability.
• Define multi-year technical strategy for TDP and DXP.
• Coordinate direction across US, Australia, and India.
• Shape cloud-agnostic streaming substrate and data-movement capabilities.
• Ensure architecture supports data residency, tenant isolation, and regulated-cloud needs.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Kubernetes

Event streaming

Multi-cloud

Leadership experience

Architectural direction

Tools

Kafka

Kubernetes

Flink

TiDB

Job description

Atlassian Corp. seeks a Senior Principal Engineer to lead architecture for TDP and DXP across multiple teams in a cloud-agnostic data platform. You will shape compute, streaming, and platform intelligence while guiding reliability, cost, and adoption.

This high-leverage IC role partners with managers, engineers, and product teams across the US, Australia, and India. You will set architectural direction, mentor senior engineers, and drive multi-year strategy to deliver reusable platform