Senior Principal Software Engineer - Jira

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Hiring Remotely in Sydney, New South Wales
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The Role
The Senior Principal Software Engineer will shape the technical strategy of the Jira platform by collaborating with various engineering teams, driving architectural improvements, and ensuring operational excellence through mentorship and influence. This role requires building scalable systems and establishing a long-term vision for software architecture.
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Overview
Working at Atlassian
Atlassian can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity. Assuming you have eligible working rights and a sufficient time zone overlap with your team, you can choose to work remotely or from an office (unless it's necessary for your role to be performed in the office). Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.
We're hiring Senior Principal Software Engineer to join our Jira Experience XP team.
You will report into the Head of Engineering in Jira. In this role, you will focus on a technical strategy that aligns with the enterprise technical vision and our requirements around enterprise scale and performance, and bring it to reality across all of Jira. This position would work across ~250 member engineering team on projects and across the entire Jira platform in driving improvements to our overall operational excellence, reliability, and developer productivity.
Responsibilities
What you'll do:

  • Shape the forward-looking technical direction and long-term architecture for Jira Platform.
  • Identifying, translating and driving architecturally significant programs of work that impact at an org and company level.
  • Use your deep technical, influencing and communication skills to align other engineers, product managers, and senior managers at the team, org and company level to understands the vision, translate that into an impactful solution.
  • Work with leadership and provide technical input on roadmap planning.
  • Partner with principal engineers and architects from other teams and drive exploration of large-scale projects spanning multiple teams in Jira.
  • Solve interesting, complex problems from technical design to launch.
  • Improve, through example, the quality of software construction and meaningful code reviews in an agile environment.
  • Be a role model for, and influence a large team of engineers at multiple seniority levels all the way from grads to principal engineers, and mentor engineers across the teams.
  • Be influential within your team and work with peers and senior leaders to define and revise the standards for operational excellence across Atlassian.


Qualifications
Your background:

  • 10+ years of experience building software, with 4+ years in an architect/principal role working across teams.
  • Proficiency in Java or another JVM-based language. Experience in another object-oriented programming language is also acceptable, but you need to be willing to work with a Java tech stack.
  • Broad experience architecting, designing, and building large-scale systems with multiple dependencies.
  • Passion for building quality solutions and up-keeping quality standards.
  • Success with building, expressing, and pitching a technical vision to stakeholders.
  • Experience with collaboration with an ecosystem of teams.
  • Success with leading the long-term strategy for software architecture.
  • Experience with Enterprise Customers.
  • Experience in operational requirements and common challenges of software systems.
  • Experience working on developer productivity initiatives.
  • Experience working on security and compliance-related features.


Our perks & benefits
Atlassian offers a variety of perks and benefits to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health coverage, paid volunteer days, wellness resources, and so much more. Visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits to learn more.
About Atlassian
At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Our software products help teams all over the planet and our solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through our tools makes what may be impossible alone, possible together.
We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.
For San Francisco Only: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh

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Atlassian creates teamwork solutions for high-performing teams. Our portfolio of collaboration and work management software products includes Jira, Confluence, Trello, Loom and Rovo. More than 300,000 businesses worldwide rely on Atlassian’s technology, including 80 percent of Fortune 500 companies. Our solutions support various business teams and they help organizations plan, track, and deliver their biggest ideas together.

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At Atlassian, we believe we can accomplish so much more together than apart — which is why everything from our tooling — to our distributed workforce — to how our teams are structured is rooted in collaboration. Come join us and help unleash the potential of every team.

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