Senior Principle Engineer - Growth Organization

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Hiring Remotely in San Francisco, CA, USA
In-Office or Remote
202K-318K Annually
Senior level
Cloud • Information Technology • Productivity • Security • Software • App development • Automation
Atlassian provides tools to help every team unleash their full potential.
The Role
Provides technical leadership for Atlassian’s Growth Monetization organization. Owns long-term architecture and technical evolution of distributed services, customer experiences, and experimentation platforms. Defines cross-team roadmaps, leads architectural initiatives and experimentation strategies, and ensures operational excellence across performance, reliability, observability, data safety, and security. The role includes hands-on incident and problem-solving leadership, technical reviews, mentoring senior and principal engineers, and driving product and engineering strategy across multiple teams.
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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.
To help our teams work effectively, this role is fully remote, but requires you to be located in the USA or Canada / Pacific Timezone.
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Your Future Org
The Growth Organization enables all Atlassian current and future users to easily discover, try, adopt and get value from Atlassian core products of Jira, Confluence, Loom and Teamwork Collection. The Growth Org combines product thinking, platforms and data analysis to drive experimentation across products resulting in greater engagement, use and long term value for customers.
As a P70 in the Growth Organization, you will help turn this vision into reality by shaping the platforms that support new & upgrading customer flows, identifying technical strategy and driving the Atlassian AI transformation making our products the agent-native system of record. Your success will seen and felt by customers and will be achieved through combining data, product/market understanding and innovation to help customers capture the full value of their teamwork.
Your Future Team
The Growth Monetization team optimizes the services and experiences for customers in Atlassian core products. The team directly contributes to Atlassian Revenue by creating and testing customer interactions from first contact with the product through to purchase.
Responsibilities
  • Own the technical evolution and long-term architecture of the Growth Monetization services, customer experiences and experimentation platforms
  • Collaborate across Product teams defining forward roadmaps for multiple teams driving customer success
  • Maintain high standards of Operational Excellence in Growth Monetization platforms and services for performance, reliability, observability and data safety and security.
  • Continually raise technical standards and success through hands-on leadership in reviews, investigations, incidents and critical Product problem solving, mentoring Principal and Senior Engineers
  • Lead technical experimentation strategies across multiple teams driving product and engineering approaches

Basic Qualifications
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 12+ years of experience developing large scale distributed systems.
  • 4+ years of experience providing architectural oversight and technical leadership.

Preferred Qualifications
  • Proven experience at department-level: shaping technical direction across teams and influencing architecture and product strategy beyond a single service.
  • Track record of leading major architectural initiatives and turning multi-year strategy into incremental delivery and measurable outcomes.
  • Extensive experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems, data streaming platforms and event-driven architecture
  • Broad knowledge of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS and hands-on experience with public clouds (ideally AWS and/or GCP).
  • Fluency in any modern object-oriented programming language (e.g., Java, Golang, Python, Javascript, go etc.) and in architecture patterns for distributed systems.
  • Experience mentoring senior engineers, leading technical reviews, and improving engineering quality and productivity.
  • Quick learner who excels in ambiguous environments.

At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. We follow consistent hiring practices and account for each candidate's skills, knowledge, and experience when setting base pay within the range.
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.
This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
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: $243,900 - $318,425
Zone B: $219,510 - $286,583
Zone C: $202,437 - $264,293
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 .
In line with local law, identity verification (which may include use of biometric data) is a condition of employment with Atlassian for employment fraud purposes.

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 12+ years of experience developing large-scale distributed systems
  • 4+ years of experience providing architectural oversight and technical leadership
  • Experience shaping technical direction across teams and influencing architecture and product strategy beyond a single service
  • Experience leading major architectural initiatives and translating multi-year strategy into incremental delivery and measurable outcomes
  • Experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems, data streaming platforms, and event-driven architectures
  • Broad knowledge of SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS
  • Hands-on experience with public clouds, ideally AWS and/or GCP
  • Fluency in a modern object-oriented programming language such as Java, Golang, Python, or JavaScript
  • Experience with distributed systems architecture patterns
  • Experience mentoring senior engineers, leading technical reviews, and improving engineering quality and productivity
  • Ability to learn quickly and excel in ambiguous environments

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Atlassian Compensation & Benefits Highlights

  • Parental & Family Support — Parental leave spans 26 weeks for birthing parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents, alongside inclusive family-formation benefits such as fertility treatment, adoption, and surrogacy. Additional supports include menopause resources and caregiving-related programs.
  • Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a U.S. 401(k) company match with immediate vesting and multiple contribution options. These are complemented by other financial wellbeing tools like HSAs/FSAs.
  • Healthcare Strength — Medical coverage is paired with mental-health resources, disability and life insurance, and options such as HSA/FSA. Descriptions also point to solid plan choices with access to counseling, coaching, and 24/7 support.

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
11,000 Employees
Year Founded: 2012

What We Do

Atlassian creates teamwork solutions for high-performing teams. Our portfolio of collaboration and work management software products includes Jira, Confluence, Trello, Loom and Rovo. More than 300,000 businesses worldwide rely on Atlassian’s technology, including 80 percent of Fortune 500 companies. Our solutions support various business teams and they help organizations plan, track, and deliver their biggest ideas together.

Why Work With Us

At Atlassian, we believe we can accomplish so much more together than apart — which is why everything from our tooling — to our distributed workforce — to how our teams are structured is rooted in collaboration. Come join us and help unleash the potential of every team.

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