Principal Software Engineer Jira Platform Search
Atlassian · Posted Oct 22
Enterprise project management, team collaboration, and software development tools
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About the role
The Jira Platform Search organization powers the foundational search backend for the entire Jira product suite, serving billions of requests daily across a massive multi-tenant architecture. The platform is undergoing a multi-year architectural transformation to support customer scale, elasticity, and high-availability reliability. As a Principal Software Engineer, the role involves architecting and leading high-scale search solutions, decomposing core monolith services into resilient microservices, and steering multi-quarter architectural roadmaps with Engineering Managers, Product Managers, and Architects.
What you will do
- End-to-End Technical Delivery: Drive solutions for high-complexity problems from architectural design through to successful production launch.
- Strategic Execution: Define technical roadmaps, scoping, and execution strategies for large-scale engineering initiatives.
- Architectural Excellence: Resolve complex systems design challenges while establishing and driving the adoption of scalable architectural standards across new projects.
- Engineering Quality & Resilience: Lead high-impact code reviews, technical documentation, and the diagnosis and resolution of critical, high-risk system defects.
- Review Standards & Best Practices: Set the benchmark for rigorous, constructive, and impactful code review practices across the team.
- Cross-Functional Alignment: Partner with cross-organizational engineering teams to execute strategic, company-wide programs across multiple workstreams.
- Domain & Technical Adaptability: Leverage deep domain and programming expertise to quickly master new technology stacks and drive high-performance engineering outcomes.
- Talent Development: Mentor and develop emerging engineering talent, elevating technical rigor and supporting overall team growth.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 10+ years in hands-on software/technology architect roles, owning end-to-end SDLC.
- Bachelor's degree preferred, ideally in Computer Science
- Deep production expertise in OpenSearch or Elasticsearch and a strong understanding of Lucene indexing and query-execution internals.
- Experience designing tenant isolation, data partitioning, shard placement, routing, and capacity strategies for distributed search systems.
- Proven improvements to search latency, indexing thr...
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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