Senior Principal Engineer - Growth Organization

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Hiring Remotely in 2000, Sydney, New South Wales, AUS
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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Engineering | Sydney, Australia | Remote, Remote
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 within Australia/New Zealand.
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 Senior Principal Engineer 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. Main areas of focus will be:
  • Guiding teams in Front End development to implement new Customer-facing experiments and instrument data collection
  • Understand the user journey and purchase funnel for Product Led Sales, using data to guide decisions

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
  • Experience in Full Stack development converting designs into performant and reliable customer experiences
  • 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.
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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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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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