Senior Principal Engineer - Jira Platform
Atlassian · Posted Oct 13
Enterprise project management, team collaboration, and software development tools
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About the role
The Jira Platform organization aims to make Jira the trusted, agent-native system of record and control plane for human and agent teamwork at enterprise scale, driven by AI transformation, enterprise readiness, and efficiency. Within it, the Jira Data Management team of 50+ engineers builds scalable, predictable data management and migration capabilities for Jira Cloud, supporting Data Center to Cloud, Cloud to Cloud, and External to Cloud migrations plus data-shape management for products like Site Optimizer for Jira. This Senior Principal Engineer role will own the technical evolution and long-term architecture of Jira Data Management, lead the largest architectural initiatives across Jira Platform, and mentor Principal and senior engineers.
What you will do
- Own the technical evolution and long-term architecture of Jira Data Management, shaping strategy for enterprise-scale data movement, governance, resiliency, and data health.
- Lead the largest architectural initiatives across Jira Platform, from strategy and milestones through delivery, adoption, and customer outcomes.
- Define and drive a 12–24 month roadmap for shared platform primitives, identify gaps, and make clear trade-offs on priorities.
- Raise standards for reliability, performance, observability, security, and operational excellence across systems handling critical enterprise data.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership via design reviews, deep investigations, incident reviews, and high-risk problem solving while mentoring Principal and senior engineers.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 12+ years of experience developing large scale distributed systems.
- 4+ years of experience providing architectural oversight and technical leadership.
Preferred qualifications
- Proven experience at department-level: shaping technical direction across teams and influencing architecture beyond a single service.
- Track record of leading major architectural initiatives and turning multi-year strategy into incremental delivery and measurable outcomes.
- Extensive experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems, data streaming platforms and event-driven architecture
- Broad knowledge of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS and hands-on experience with public clouds (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 mentoring senior engineers, leading technical reviews, and improving engineering quality and productivity.
- Quick learner who excels in ambiguous environments.
Benefits and support
- Health and wellbeing resources
- Paid volunteer days
- Bonuses
- Equity
- Flexible work options (office, 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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