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Lead the technical vision, architecture, and delivery of Atlassian’s large-scale Search Platform. Responsibilities include building distributed ingestion and indexing systems, supporting multi-cloud and isolated-cloud environments, meeting enterprise compliance and encryption requirements, improving throughput and reliability, optimizing infrastructure costs, and advancing vector, hybrid, and agentic retrieval capabilities. The role requires cross-functional technical leadership across ML, data, cloud infrastructure, and product teams.

Principal Software Engineer role at Atlassian with flexible remote, office, or hybrid work options. The provided description primarily details compensation, benefits, company culture, equal employment practices, and employment verification requirements; specific responsibilities and technical qualifications are not included.

Leads complex software engineering initiatives from technical design through launch, provides architectural and technical leadership, drives engineering standards, mentors engineers, and collaborates across teams on company-wide projects. Requires deep experience building and operating scalable systems with strong testing, reliability, security, and observability practices, plus full-stack development expertise and familiarity with A/B testing.

Leads a team of 10–15 software engineers responsible for Atlassian Government Cloud release infrastructure and processes. Owns release planning, readiness, go/no-go decisions, cutover, verification, rollback, incident escalation, and compliance. Defines a multi-quarter roadmap covering trunk-based development, feature flags, progressive rollouts, automated gates, and rollback automation. Partners across engineering, product, QA, SRE, security, and compliance while coaching team members and improving release reliability.

Lead design, build, and maintain scalable infrastructure and platform services. Improve reliability, automation, CI/CD, observability, and security. Collaborate with engineering teams to define best practices and troubleshoot production incidents.

Lead backend architecture and deliver reusable solutions, unblock engineering teams across the development lifecycle, drive complex design and bug fixes, set code review standards, mentor engineers, collaborate on company-wide projects, and make technical decisions balancing correctness, performance, and customer impact.

Own the technical evolution and architecture of Jira Data Management, leading enterprise-scale data movement, governance, resilience, and data health initiatives. Define long-term platform roadmaps, lead major architectural programs, and improve reliability, performance, observability, security, and operational excellence. Provide hands-on technical leadership through design reviews, investigations, incident reviews, and complex problem solving while mentoring senior and principal engineers.

The posting provides no substantive role-specific responsibilities or qualifications. It identifies a Senior Principal Engineer position at Atlassian, a globally distributed software company offering flexible work arrangements, benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity eligibility.

Lead the technical direction and implementation of large-scale SaaS product features. Build secure, reliable, maintainable, well-tested software; evaluate architectural trade-offs; debug team inefficiencies; and contribute to code reviews, documentation, and complex bug fixes. Collaborate across product, design, and engineering, influence strategy, identify organizational blockers, mentor engineers, and improve engineering practices around testing, performance, security, privacy, and reliability.

Lead technical roadmap and delivery for Search Data: design and evolve large-scale data platforms and pipelines (streaming and batch), simplify legacy systems, ensure data quality and freshness for search/AI, drive operational excellence, mentor engineers, and define architecture and standards across teams.