Principal Engineer

Working at Atlassian
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As a Senior Engineering Manager in the Cloud Transition team, you will be the driver for transformational changes in data transition steps for our customers, partners and 2P app developers. Your role will be key in designing, developing, and implementing intelligent systems that underpin our cloud transition initiatives. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to define the architecture, establish best practices, and mentor junior engineers. Your expertise will be vital in optimizing customer journey to cloud through AI powered features.
Role
You'll work closely with our design and product management as well as architecture teams to influence the direction of the product and plan the steps to get there. You'll be responsible for building effective teams, empowering them to achieve their goals, and putting those goals into broader context. Your greatest responsibility will be looking after the individuals reporting to you - coaching and supporting them in their professional development, unlocking their potential, and challenging them to step outside their comfort zone to grow and excel. As a hands on engineering leader, you will also contribute to the engineering and operational practices and bring in a continuous improvement mindset.

• Deliver platform capabilities to power customer-facing solutions/experiences such as migration assistants (JCMA, CCMA), App Migrations, and Routine Admin tasks (sandbox data clone, cloud-to-cloud data transformation, backup-restore) across Commercial Cloud, Atlassian Government Cloud and Isolated Cloud.
• Engage in compliance initiatives across platform and product stacks ranging from cloudinfrastructure to product experiences.
• Add AI capabilities to our migration products and platform to make the migration process efficient

Team Scope
As a senior engineering manager, you will bring in your rich technical and leadership experience in driving a team of 2-3 scrum teams. The overall span of the team would be 10-15 and would be the front line manager role, to start with. As a senior leader, you will work closely with multiple principal engineers, mentor and coach engineers. You will not only drive impactful business outcomes, but also take part actively in driving the technical architecture. As a seasoned leader, you will bring in world class engineering excellence and operational excellence. You'll also thrive in a challenging and growing business environment that has ambiguity, multiple global dependency footprint and diverse stakeholders.
Key attributes for candidates
On their first day, we'll expect the candidates to have:

• Significant experience with building large-scale web software
• Experience in building agentic AI and driving smarter features through LLMs
• Experience in leading large development teams directly
• Experience in developing platforms and products in a SaaS world, preferably on AWS
• Strong technical experience and a passion for getting involved in the details
• Familiarity with agile software development methodologies
• Ability to drive technical excellence, pushing innovation, quality and operational excellence
• Strong organisation and communication skills
• Driving clarity from single line requirements and providing direction in an ambiguous environments
• A track record of strong execution and delivering results
• Managing frontline engineering managers and architects

It's great if you they have:

• Experience in defining strategic roadmap for products and platforms
• Experience with distributed development teams
• Continuous delivery with a strong bias for action
• Experience in collaborating with data platform teams in data cleansing will be a big plus

Benefits & Perks
Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits .
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.
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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.
To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh .