Senior Principal Engineer, Rovo Growth Architect

Atlassian; United States; On-site; USD 244,000 - 318,000; Full time

Job summary

Atlassian is hiring for a senior engineering leader who will oversee Rovo experiences across Chat, Search, Growth, and Apps. You will shape scalable architectures, drive cross-team initiatives, and partner with product and ML leaders to deliver high-impact experiences at scale.

The role emphasizes mentorship of senior engineers and advancing engineering excellence while fostering an inclusive, high-performing culture. Location flexibility is offered with hybrid work options.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of software engineering experience across 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 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.

Skills

Broad software engineering

Platform engineering at scale

Full stack capable

Architectural leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring engineers

Job description

Atlassian is hiring for a senior engineering leader who will oversee Rovo experiences across Chat, Search, Growth, and Apps. You will shape scalable architectures, drive cross-team initiatives, and partner with product and ML leaders to deliver high-impact experiences at scale.

The role emphasizes mentorship of senior engineers and advancing engineering excellence while fostering an inclusive, high-performing culture. Location flexibility is offered with hybrid work options.