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Senior Principal Engineer

United States 198900.00 - 312550.00 USD / Year · Job Posted December 27, 2025
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We’re transforming Atlassian and efficiency is at the heart of this transformation for us and for our customers. By deeply understanding our systems and the cloud platforms we are operating on, we can design and implement systems and strategies for increasing the effectiveness of the resource consumption and hence minimizing the cost while maximizing the performance of our systems as well as our customers. We're looking for an experienced Senior Principal Engineer to provide architectural oversight and technical leadership to our growing Resource Efficiency organization. You will bring a wealth of experience in architecting complex cloud scale systems. You will also need to be comfortable working with senior leadership and in navigating cross org challenges. You will be working with the team to define architectural/organizational future states that we can scale going forward. You will be key for making the calls to balance the vision for the problem space and the current business & technology critical challenges. The role will report directly to the Head of Engineering for Resource Efficiency. This is a remote-friendly opportunity, specifically for Pacific Time Zone only.

Job Responsibility

  • Architecting and optimizing our cloud infrastructure to support millions of users with minimal latency and maximum reliability
  • Be a key leader of the migration of core Atlassian products to next-generation cloud platforms, leveraging AWS and GCP
  • Designing cost-efficient, high-performance systems that enable new features in Jira and Confluence
  • 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
  • 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

Requirements

  • BS in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent experience
  • 12+ years of experience developing large scale distributed systems
  • 4+ years of experience providing architectural oversight and technical leadership
  • Excellent communication skills and a track record of cross-group/cross-discipline collaboration
  • 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
  • You will have strong empathy and a bias for action
  • Quick learner who thrives in an ambiguous environment

What we offer

  • health and wellbeing resources
  • paid volunteer days
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