Senior Principal Engineer

Overview:

The Atlassian Ecosystem and Marketplace organization enables our customers to do more with Atlassian products by giving them options to choose trusted applications developed specifically for enhancing the productivity of the customers or build their own custom applications tailored for their own needs. The builders of the applications use the rich extensibility options available to unleash their creativity and extend the Atlassian products. They can also choose to publish the applications on Atlassian Marketplace to showcase their creativity and also turn it into a monetization opportunity. We are hiring for a senior principal engineer who has deep engineering background building solutions that builders can use to be most successful. The individual in this role will do so by working alongside other senior technical leaders in Atlassian in building the long term architecture that is scalable and flexible to grow and adapt to a large spectrum of builders outside Atlassian.

You are an ideal candidate if you care deeply about builder productivity and bringing simple but powerful solutions to other builders. Solutions you have built in the past serve developers and also non-developers through low code or no code toolsets, leverage the power of AI and can also be used to built AU solutions. You are fearless in experimenting and learning from failures.

Responsibilities:

You are an ideal candidate if you care deeply about builder productivity and brining simple to use powerful solutions to other builders. Solutions you have built in the past serve developers and also non-developers through low code or no code toolsets. You are fearless in experimenting and learning from failures.

What you'll do

• Shape the forward-looking technical direction and long-term architecture for Ecosystem and Marketplace
• Collaborate with product, engineering and design leaders to understand and influence the broader department level long term strategy
• Ensure that the technical strategy you build is aligned with the technical strategy of Atlassian products and platforms
• Partner with principal engineers and architects from other teams and drive exploration of large-scale projects spanning multiple teams in Enterprise
• Provide pragmatic and balanced advice to the engineering leaders to invest in the long term architecture while also servicing the current systems with high quality
• Improve, through example, the quality of software construction and meaningful code reviews in an agile environment.
• Be a role model for, and influence a large team of engineers at multiple seniority levels all the way from grads to principal engineers, and mentor engineers across the teams.
• Be influential within your team and work with peers and senior leaders to define and revise the standards for operational excellence across Atlassian.
• Mentor, hire and develop other engineers.

Qualifications:

Your background

• 10+ years of experience building software, with 4+ years in an architect/principal role working across teams
• Broad experience architecting, designing, and building large-scale systems with multiple dependencies.
• Passion for building quality solutions and up-keeping quality standards.
• Success with building, expressing, and pitching a technical vision to stakeholders.
• Experience with collaboration with an ecosystem of teams
• Success with leading the long-term strategy for software architecture
• Experience with building and operating large scale, high availability, high reliability services
• Experience in operational requirements and common challenges of software systems
• Experience working on developer productivity initiatives.
• Experience working on security and compliance-related features.
• Well versed in using and building AI toolsets.
• Proficiency in spoken and written English
• Optional, but preferred if you have prior experience in building platforms for other developers and non-developers.

Benefits & Perks

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