Senior Principal Engineer

About Atlassian
Atlassian's mission "to unleash the potential of every team" is the guiding light behind what we do. We have developed well-known products such as Jira, Confluence, and Trello... that fit into the fabric of teamwork across different types of teams and the processes to help every team succeed.
Atlassian helps teams everywhere change the world. Our products are revolutionizing the software industry, and helping teams collaborate and create the magic that provides their best work. Think NASA launching the Rover on Mars or Cochlear gifting those born deaf with the ability to hear, your work directly impacts the products they use to promote humanity.
About Cloud Transition Team
Atlassian's mission is to be cloud-ready for every customer. As part of that vision, the Cloud Transition team will focus on enabling organizations to align their teams to new systems of work. Customers need to be able to switch over from legacy site architectures to the new Atlassian operating system with speed and confidence.
The Cloud Transition organization is chartered to strengthen customer trust through enterprise-grade shared capabilities and delightful experiences.
As part of our cloud strategy, we are on a mission to get our SaaS offerings to be enterprise ready and widely adopted by enterprise customers. Our company goal of 100 million MAU requires mass adoption of our products by knowledge workers, which means building our mass adoption of our products by enterprises. Over the last three years, the Cloud Transition team has laid the foundation to support enterprise customers with new offerings. In the next three years, we want to accelerate that adoption further to make our cloud-ready for every customer a reality.
The Cloud Transitions Capabilities pillar within Cloud Transition organization primarily provides core features and platform capabilities on cloud at enterprise standards. These encompass capabilities like Backup-Restore, Data portability (large scale data movement within an enterprise to support various compliance/change requirements) , Wall-to-wall expansion from competitors , and Sandbox (trusted change).
With this program, we are trying to unify the platform and experience for the customers, to guide them through the journey of discovering what tools to use and when. It also encompasses providing centralized cloud capabilities platforms, which all of the Atlassian products can facilitate from.
You will work closely with the Cloud Transition Capabilities leadership team to define and execute the vision and strategy for the group. You'll also work closely with other senior architects, product and engineering management leaders, and principal engineers to influence the direction of the product and platform evolution. Your greatest responsibility will be inspiring the other engineers in your org - 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.
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As a senior technical leader, you will work closely with the Cloud Transition Capabilities leadership team to define and execute the vision and strategy for the group.You will also be expected to lead other engineers to define our strategic technical direction, and to execute involved projects from design to launch.
You will widely collaborate with other teams and leaders globally to influence, set expectations, gather inputs and communicate results. Your role is pivotal in identifying and driving step-change initiatives, ensuring we build world class platforms to power Backup/Restore, Sandbox, Data Portability and Wall-to-wall expansion from competitors, that drive immense impact to catapult Atlassian growth.

• Strong technical expertise and 14+ years experience in designing/building enterprise grade solutions using microservices. Fluency in at least one modern object-oriented programming language (preferably Java)
• Broad experience architecting, designing, and building large-scale systems with multiple dependencies.
• Passion for engineering rigor and operational excellence (design principles and patterns, unit testing, best practices for security and privacy, CI/CD etc). You will be a role model for operational responsibility and data-driven engineering rigor.
• Success with building, expressing, and pitching a technical vision to stakeholders. Driving consensus with other cross team technical leaders.
• Excellent collaboration, communication and leadership skills. Ability to get engineers to follow their lead as well as mentor/coach
• Success with leading the long-term strategy for software architecture.
• Experience with Enterprise Customers. Been a strong advocate to achieve high standards of customer satisfaction and experience.
• High level of energy and a desire to innovate in a large, fast-paced organization; ability to balance multiple projects under pressure
• Experience working on developer productivity initiatives.