Senior Principal Software Engineer

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Hiring Remotely in San Francisco, CA, USA
In-Office or Remote
Cloud • Information Technology • Productivity • Security • Software • App development • Automation
Atlassian provides tools to help every team unleash their full potential.
The Role
Working at Atlassian
Atlassians can choose where they work - whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity.
The Senior Principal Engineer will drive our Revenue Technology landscape forward by building towards our next generation connected Marketing, Sales and Finance workflows and interfaces to meet the rapid growth of these functions. We have a robust systems landscape that supports of unique business model and we are rapidly evolving to the next phase. The Senior Principal Engineer will be at the center of this evolution and will connect the lifecycle of data and interfaces that land in our top of funnel through back end processing.
Responsibilities
You are an ideal candidate if care deeply about building simple yet scalable solutions to meet our customer's needs for tomorrow. Products you have built in the past speaks volumes to your ability to influence business processes and get the best possible ROI for the engineering investments. In this Senior leadership role within the Atlassian Customer Engineering function, you will:
  1. Shape the forward-looking technical direction and long-term architecture for Sales, Marketing and Finance platforms to the next generation suite of solutions with a bias towards building rich and delightful experiences.
  2. Collaborate with data, product and design leaders to understand and influence the broader department level long term strategy.
  3. Develop architectural standards and principles for a right sized mix of first-party and third-party products in the overall Revenue Tech portfolio.
  4. Bring leading industry best practices and technical vision as we bring AI and ML driven solutions to scale our solutions
  5. Connect the big picture vision into executable strategy and device multi year technology strategy that aligns with organizational goals and priorities.
  6. 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.
  7. Mentor, hire and develop other engineers.

Qualifications
You are the right candidate if you have:
  1. 12+ years of experience building software, with 5+ years in an architect/principal role working across teams. It will be a plus if you have experience working in Commerce, CRM , Marketing or Fintech stack of products, with an acute understanding of these business domains.
  2. Experience in building and operating large scale, high availability, high reliability services
  3. Experience in operational requirements and common challenges of software systems
  4. Experience working on organizational data, security and compliance-related initiatives.
  5. Well versed in using and building AI toolsets.
  6. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.

Compensation
At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. To support this goal, the baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range, but in turn we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidate's skills, expertise, or experience. In the United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:
Zone A: $232,200 - $303,150
Zone B: $209,700 - $273,775
Zone C: $193,500 - $252,625
This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.
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.
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 .

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