Atlassian is looking to hire a Senior Principal Engineer to take on a high level of responsibility, act as a role model and mentor, and contribute to defining technical direction and OKRs for the Central AI organization. The role involves tackling complex problems, driving transformational solutions, and ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance optimizations for exabyte-scale storage.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in backend software development, with a focus on distributed systems and large-scale storage solutions.
- Proficiency in system design, performance optimization, and cost-efficient architecture for exabyte-scale storage.
- Expertise in at least one major backend programming language (Kotlin, Java, Go, Rust, or Python).
- Strong understanding of distributed systems principles, including consistency models, replication, sharding, and consensus algorithms
- Preferred by not required: 5+ years of hands on experience related to one of these systems: web crawler, link graph mining, web data ingress system, scheduler system.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with partner teams and internal customers to help define technical direction and OKRs for the Central AI organization.
- Regularly tackle the largest and most complex problems on the team, from technical design to implementation and launch
- Partner across engineering teams to take on company-wide initiatives spanning multiple projects
- Routinely tackle complex architecture challenges and apply architectural standards and start using them on new projects
- Work across senior engineering and product leaders to build strategy and design solutions to earn customers trust and business
- Own key OKRs and end-to-end outcomes of critical projects in a microservices environment
- Champion best practices and innovative techniques for scalability, reliability, and performance optimizations.
Other
- As an engineer well into your career, we know you're an expert at your do and have a breadth of experience across multiple backend technologies.
- You take pride in working across departments to deliver transformational solutions that scale an entire company.
- You enjoy working with other Principals and more junior members look up to and sharing your expertise with others...
- Help hire and mentor engineers to build an open, innovative and operationally responsible culture.
- Experience mentoring senior engineers and driving high-impact engineering initiatives.
