Senior Principal Forward Deployed Engineer

Atlassian Corp.; United States; Remote; USD 236,000 - 308,000; Full time

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Job summary

Atlassian in San Francisco, United States (Remote) is seeking a Senior Principal Forward Deployed Engineer to contribute across Atlassian’s product suite and lead AI/ML deployments tailored to client needs. This senior role emphasizes collaboration with customers, cross-team leadership, and driving measurable business value through innovative automation.

The position supports remote work and may include compensation and equity considerations, with a structured path to influence product direction

Responsibilities

• Code contributes across the entire Atlassian product suite, providing exceptionally broad engineering exposure.
• Lead the design, development, and deployment of AI/ML-powered solutions using Rovo tailored to customer needs.
• Influence product direction by building with the customers, and realising the last mile papercuts they go through.
• Champion the adoption of AI-augmented workflow automation within customer environments, maximizing business value and operational efficiency.
• Oversee the end-to-end deployment of AI solutions into production, ensuring continuous evaluation, monitoring, and improvement.
• Navigate risk and compliance requirements, including AI risk assessment, data privacy (GDPR), and regulatory frameworks.
• Mentor and guide Senior FDEs and engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, creating concise artifacts for peers, partners, and leadership.
• Align technical solutions with business objectives, setting a clear vision for technological progress and measurable results.

Job description

Senior Principal Forward Deployed Engineer

Engineering | San Francisco, United States | Remote, Remote

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.

What you’ll do

As a Senior Principal Forward Deployed Engineer, you will:

Code contributes across the entire Atlassian product suite, providing exceptionally broad engineering exposure

Lead the design, development, and deployment of AI/ML-powered solutions using Rovo tailored to customer needs.

Influence product direction by building with the customers, and realising the last mile papercuts they go through.

Champion the adoption of AI-augmented workflow automation within customer environments, maximizing business value and operational efficiency.

Oversee the end-to-end deployment of AI solutions into production, ensuring continuous evaluation, monitoring, and improvement.

Navigate risk and compliance requirements, including AI risk assessment, data privacy (GDPR), and regulatory frameworks.

Mentor and guide Senior FDEs and engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.

Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, creating concise artifacts for peers, partners, and leadership.

Align technical solutions with business objectives, setting a clear vision for technological progress and measurable results.

At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. We follow consistent hiring practices and account for each candidate's skills, knowledge, and experience when setting base pay within the range.

Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.

This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.

In The United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:

Zone A: $235,800 - $307,850

Zone B: $212,220 - $277,065

Zone C: $195,714 - $255,516

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.

In line with local law, identity verification (which may include use of biometric data) is a condition of employment with Atlassian for employment fraud purposes.

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