Atlassian is transforming and needs to increase efficiency by designing and implementing systems and strategies for increasing the effectiveness of resource consumption, minimizing cost, and maximizing performance of their systems and their customers' systems.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience developing large scale distributed systems.
- 4+ years of experience providing architectural oversight and technical leadership.
- Broad experience architecting, designing, and building large-scale distributed systems.
- Broad knowledge and understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS with hands-on experience of one or more public cloud offerings (ideally AWS and/or GCP).
- Fluency in any modern object-oriented programming language (e.g., Java, Golang, Python, Javascript, go etc.) and in architecture patterns for distributed systems.
- Experience with financial aspects of running complex services at scale.
- Able to drive the long term vision and strategy.
Responsibilities
- Architecting and optimizing our cloud infrastructure to support millions of users with minimal latency and maximum reliability.
- Be a key leader of the migration of core Atlassian products to next-generation cloud platforms, leveraging AWS and GCP.
- Designing cost-efficient, high-performance systems that enable new features in Jira and Confluence.
- Partnering with product and other engineering teams to launch innovative solutions that redefine team collaboration.
- Drive architectural vision and technical strategy for projects that are directly tied to Atlassian’s company-level OKRs.
- Partner with C-suite executives and senior leaders to align engineering efforts with Atlassian’s long-term business objectives.
- Lead cross-organizational initiatives that have a lasting impact on Atlassian’s growth and innovation.
Other
- Provide architectural oversight and technical leadership to our growing Resource Efficiency organization.
- Comfortable working with senior leadership and in navigating cross org challenges.
- Working with the team to define architectural/organizational future states that we can scale going forward.
- Key for making the calls to balance the vision for the problem space and the current business & technology critical challenges.
- Excellent communication skills and a track record of cross-group/cross-discipline collaboration.
- You will have strong empathy and a bias for action.
- Quick learner who thrives in an ambiguous environment.
