Senior Principal Engineer, 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

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.

Overview

Atlassian's Rovo Experiences & Growth organization creates the customer-facing experiences that help people find, understand, and act on their organization's knowledge. Our teams work across Rovo Chat, Rovo Search, Growth, and Rovo Apps & Clients, delivering trusted, consistent AI experiences across web, mobile, desktop, and browser extensions while helping customers make Rovo part of their daily work.

• Lead technical strategy and architecture across Rovo Chat, Rovo Search, Growth, and Rovo Apps & Clients, ensuring our experiences are scalable, reliable, secure, and cohesive.

• Shape the convergence of Search and Chat, creating shared patterns and capabilities that enable users to retrieve information, understand context, continue through multi-step interactions, and take action.

• Drive the development of rich, reusable experience foundations that work across Atlassian products and connected third-party tools, reducing fragmentation and enabling teams to move faster.

• Partner with product, design, data science, machine learning, 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 while balancing deep project involvement with long-term strategic thinking.

• Raise the bar for quality, performance, trust, and operational excellence across Rovo’s customer-facing experiences.

• Standardize and mechanize how AI experiences are developed and deployed, moving from one-off implementations toward scalable, composable, and repeatable approaches.

• Mentor senior engineers, influence engineering culture, and champion technical excellence, inclusive collaboration, and continuous learning.

• 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.

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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