Senior Principal Engineer, Cloud Transition

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We are seeking an industry-recognized technical leader to join the Data Portability team in Bangalore as a Sr. Principal . In this role, you will be a technical visionary and a hands on engineer for products & solutions that are revolutionizing the software industry and helping teams collaborate and craft that magic in delivering their best work. The primary focus of your role will be to drive the broad technical strategy of our products and solution architecture & implementation, over a 12-24 month horizon for Cloud Transition. You will be a proven thought leader with the ability to translate loosely defined, yet critical ideas into a well-defined architectural vision that can be aligned with the technical and product leaders across Atlassian. You will raise the bar, though example, on the quality of software construction in a fast-paced, agile environment. You will use your deep technical skills to transform the product and platform landscape and mentor other developers, product managers, and senior managers, ensuring the team understands the vision, and help realize that vision. As a seasoned technologist, you're expected to be comfortable with data management space in the cloud and will lead the architecture for data portability. You'll partner very closely with the Head of Engineering and provide guidance to the team to define and nurture our engineering culture for the site.
You will also be required to deeply understand technology landscapes, and evaluate the use of new technologies, and effective review and communicate as required. You will be influential within your team and work with peers and senior leaders to define and revise the standards for operational excellence across Atlassian. You will consistently tackle abstract issues that span multiple functional areas and drive your team to push for improvements that can scale across other teams, services, and platforms.
Needless to say, working with a world class engineering team, being part of an inspiring engineering culture and also adrenalin driving adventures during our Enterprise Cloud journey are all perks associated with this job.
On your first day we'll expect you to have:

• BS degree in Computer Science, Graduate degree preferred.
• At least 15 years of experience in a variety of hands-on software/technology roles, preferably in Enterprise Products & Solutions in the cloud.
• Hands on engineer with cloud native skills, being comfortable with one of cloud stack, preferably AWS.
• At least 6 years of architecting, driving and implementing multiple features of a SaaS product at a high scale, performance and reliability of at least 4 nines.
• Deep understanding & proven experience of the various dimensions of building and delivering multi-tenanted cloud-native SaaS software
• Well-versed in challenges of distributed systems, modern cloud-native architectures, distributed data management in a cloud environment and front-end applications.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication in pursuit of driving the mission forward.
• Influencing skills in balancing short and long term objectives including technical and business outcomes.

Experience in the following is preferred:

• Experience in scaling architectures related to large volumes of data, in the cloud
• Deep understanding & proven experience of working on security and compliance related features in public cloud
• Influencing business leaders and teams across cross geographical locations.

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.
To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh .