Senior Principal Backend Engineer

Working at Atlassian

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As an Observability Architect for the Platform Engineering team, you will collaborate closely with various platform engineering and product teams to enhance Atlassian's telemetry offerings and develop a premier monitoring solution.

Your primary responsibility will be to define and reimagine the overall telemetry strategy while creating a centralized monitoring solution for all Atlassian products. In this role, you will lead the design and decision-making processes for our telemetry architecture. You will partner with Technical Program Managers and developers to create solutions that improve user experience by streamlining the utilization of observability systems. Additionally, you will be instrumental in identifying opportunities for innovation within the telemetry landscape, ensuring that Atlassian remains at the forefront of industry standards.

This position is well-suited for a leader and coach who is enthusiastic about taking ownership of the overall Observability architecture. You will support the team in developing and implementing solutions that are not only cost-effective but also scalable and reliable.

Responsibilities

• Regularly tackle the largest and most complex problems on the team, from technical design to Solution.

• Deliver solutions that are used by other teams and products

• Determine plans-of-attack on large projects

• Routinely tackle complex architecture challenges and apply architectural standards and start using them on new projects

• Lead code reviews and documentation, as well as take on complex bug fixes, especially on high-risk problems

• Set the standard for thorough, meaningful code reviews

• Partner across Engineering teams to take on company-wide initiatives spanning multiple projects

• Transfer your depth of knowledge from your current language to excel as a Software Engineer

• Mentor more junior members of the team

Minimum Qualifications

• Previous experience in building and managing large scale telemetry systems, OTEL, TSDB

• Previous experience building large scale data ingestion pipelines

• Software development in Java, Python

• Serious analytical skills across different levels of the stack: Network, .Net/Java, Operating System

Preferred Qualifications

• Practical experience in GDPR, PCI, and HIPAA

• Architecture class knowledge in AWS RDS, data bricks

• Data quality improvement programs

Benefits & Perks

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