Atlassian is looking for an experienced Senior Principal Engineer to provide architectural oversight and technical leadership to their organization, specifically focusing on architecting complex cloud-scale systems and defining future architectural/organizational states for scalability.
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
- Provide architectural oversight and technical leadership to our organization.
- Architecting complex cloud scale systems.
- Define architectural/organizational future states that we can scale going forward.
- Delivering solutions that help customers manage their Operational risk with Change Management
- Designing cost-efficient, high-performance systems that support all Atlassian Apps.
- 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.
Other
- Comfortable working with senior leadership and in navigating cross org challenges.
- Key for making the calls to balance the vision for the problem space and the current business & technology critical challenges.
- 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.
- Excellent communication skills and a track record of cross-group/cross-discipline collaboration.
