Principal Software Engineer - Encryption
Atlassian · Posted Nov 6
Enterprise project management, team collaboration, and software development tools
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About the role
Atlassian is a distributed-first company whose engineering organization builds products such as Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Rovo. This Principal Software Engineer role sits in the Encryption area of Engineering, focused on building security-critical systems, key management, and cloud security at scale across SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS environments. The role involves leading technical design through launch on the team's largest and most complex problems, driving architecture standards, leading code reviews, partnering across engineering teams, and mentoring other engineers.
What you will do
- Regularly tackle the largest and most complex problems on the team, from technical design to launch
- 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 & 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
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 12+ years experience in multiple hands-on software/technology leadership roles, with end-to-end responsibility through the software development lifecycle
- Bachelor's or Master's degree (preferably a Computer Science degree or equivalent experience)
- Expertise with one or more prominent languages such as Java, Python, Kotlin, Go, or Scala is required, plus experience in at least one additional language
- Hands-on experience building encryption, key management, or other security-critical systems at scale
- Strong cloud security expertise, with hands-on experience on public cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Understanding of the SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS industry and of large-scale distributed systems
- Knowledge to evaluate trade-offs between security, correctness, robustness, performance, space, and time
- Practice in mentoring other engineers and influencing decision makers throughout the organization
- Considers the customer impact when making technical decisions
- Experience in CI (Continuous Integration) and CD (Continuous Deployment)
Benefits and support
- Team Anywhere: choose to work from an office, from home, or a combination of the two
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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