Senior Principal Engineer, Search Platform
Atlassian · Posted Oct 19
Enterprise project management, team collaboration, and software development tools
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About the role
The Search Platform team at Atlassian powers Rovo Search, knowledge discovery, and search for humans and agents across all enterprise data. Its mission is to make data across Atlassian and external apps searchable securely and reliably through fast, globally scalable, cost-efficient, enterprise-grade search infrastructure. This role owns the technical roadmap, execution, and outcomes for the Search Data pillar, building and evolving a platform for integrating, processing, indexing, and searching massive volumes of unstructured data across 100+ sources.
What you will do
- Collaborate with technical leads, partner teams and internal customers to define technical strategy and architecture for Search Data.
- Lead the evolution of our data platform and pipelines to meet the demands of both real-time search freshness and AI/agentic retrieval at enterprise scale.
- Make hard architectural trade-offs between freshness, correctness, cost, and operational simplicity - and own the outcomes.
- Drive the simplification and modernization of complex, legacy data processing systems. Identify and eliminate unnecessary complexity. Design systems that are understandable, testable, and operable.
- Establish design patterns and best practices for handling the inherent messiness of real-world data - schema evolution, partial failures, eventual consistency, connector variability, and data quality degradation.
- Own engineering and operational excellence for the health of our systems and processes. Proactively drive opportunities for continuous improvements and own key operational metrics.
- Transform developer productivity to ensure that we unleash the potential of our own team with agents.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Your deep expertise in large-scale data platforms, streaming and batch processing and distributed systems to solve some of our most complex problems including infrastructure, data and dev/agentic productivity challenges.
- As a senior technical leader, you will be expected to lead other engineers to define our strategic technical direction, and to own outcomes from design to launch.
Benefits and support
- Flexible work arrangements (office, home, or combination)
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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