Principal Software Engineer
Atlassian · Posted Oct 23
Enterprise project management, team collaboration, and software development tools
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About the role
Atlassian's KubePlat group in Core Engineering owns the Kubernetes ecosystem that runs Atlassian cloud products including Jira, Confluence, Loom, and Rovo. The team operates EKS and GKE clusters across AWS, GCP, and regulated cloud environments, and is building a multi-cloud, cell-based foundation for AI training and inference at scale. As a Principal Engineer, this role sets technical direction for Atlassian's Kubernetes, compute, and AI/ML infrastructure platform and leads cross-team initiatives from design to launch.
What you will do
- Define the architecture and multi-year roadmap for a multi-cloud, cell-based Kubernetes fleet that scales to thousands of clusters.
- Design Kubernetes-native control planes (controllers, operators, CRDs and policy) that give engineers self-serve compute, networking and cloud resources.
- Raise platform reliability and security: reduce blast radius, build safe progressive rollouts, define SLOs, isolate workloads and support compliance (for example FedRAMP).
- Lead compute efficiency through autoscaling, bin packing, capacity planning and cost optimisation.
- Build the AI/ML infrastructure ecosystem on Kubernetes: GPU compute at scale, high-bandwidth, low-latency networking, and high-performance parallel filesystems for training and inference.
- Influence engineering...
Skills used in this role
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Atlassian
Atlassian is a leading software company that builds enterprise collaboration, project planning, and issue-tracking tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Trello. Empowering teams across the globe, Atlassian focuses on unleashing the potential of every team through advanced workflows, cloud infrastructure, and AI-driven capabilities.
- Industry
- Software
- Company size
- 10001+ employees
- Founded
- 2002
- Location
- Sydney, Australia
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $210M raised
- 2010-07-13Venture - Series Unknown$60M
- 2014-04-10Secondary Market$150M
Leadership
CEO & Co-Founder
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Revenue Officer
Chief People and AI Enablement Officer
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