Senior Principal Engineer, Teamwork Graph

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We are looking for an engineer to join the Teamwork Graph team and lead a group of talented engineers who are responsible for helping build and deploy the knowledge graph of how teams work together. The graph is the foundational data layer Teamwork Graph logically representing all of a customer's data, with edges/relationships to connect entities across feature and product boundaries. The Graph powers various new AI products such as Rovo, as well as enables Atlassian products to work better together. Checkout this clip from the recent founder keynote for more details. You will work closely with the Teamwork Graph leadership team to define and execute the vision and strategy for advanced graph querying and powering a quite of Graph + AI powered applications and experiences. You will also collaborate with the federated product teams and other central orgs to integrate the Teamwork knowledge deeply in various products such as Search, Jira, Confluence, and many upcoming ones.

• Shape the forward-looking technical direction and long-term architecture for pillars in Teamwork Graph
• Collaborate with product, engineering and design leaders to understand and influence the broader department level long term strategy
• Ensure that the technical strategy you build is aligned with the technical strategy of Atlassian products and platforms
• Partner with principal engineers and architects from other teams and drive exploration of large-scale projects spanning multiple teams in Enterprise
• Provide pragmatic and balanced advice to the engineering leaders to invest in the long term architecture while also servicing the current systems with high quality
• 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.
• Mentor, hire and develop other engineers.

Your background:

• 10+ years of experience building software, with 4+ years in an architect/principal role working across teams
• 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 building and operating large scale, high availability, high reliability services
• Experience in operational requirements and common challenges of software systems
• Experience working on developer productivity initiatives.
• Experience working on security and compliance-related features.
• Proficiency in spoken and written English
• Optional, but preferred if you have prior experience in building knowledge graphs.

Our perks & benefits
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About Atlassian
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