Senior Principal Engineer Core Data Platform, Atlassian

Atlassian

Location:
United States, Seattle ▼
San Francisco
Mountain View

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Employment contract

Salary:

198300.00 - 318600.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

As an engineer well into your career, we know you're an expert at what you 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... That's why we're placing a heavy emphasis on leaning on your expertise to take on a high level of responsibility while being a role model and mentor to others on the team.

Job Responsibility:

Collaborate with partner teams and internal customers to help define technical direction and OKRs for the Core Data platform 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
Own engineering and operational excellence for the health of our systems and processes
Proactively drive opportunities for continuous improvements and own key operational metrics
Continually drive developer productivity initiatives to ensure that we unleash the potential of our own teams
Help hire and mentor engineers to build an open, innovative and operationally responsible culture

Requirements:

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field
12+ years of experience in backend software development, with a focus on distributed systems and large-scale storage solutions
8+ years of experience designing and managing highly available, large-scale storage architectures in cloud environments
5+ years of hands-on experience working with AWS storage services (S3, EBS, EFS, FSx, Glacier, DynamoDB)
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)
Experience leading technical strategy and architectural decisions in large, multi-team engineering organizations
Strong understanding of distributed systems principles, including consistency models, replication, sharding, and consensus algorithms (Raft, Paxos)
Deep knowledge of security best practices, including encryption, access control (IAM), and compliance standards (SOC2, GDPR, HIPAA)
Experience mentoring senior engineers and driving high-impact engineering initiatives

What we offer:

health coverage
paid volunteer days
wellness resources

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
April 23, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Remote work

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