Working at Atlassian
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Overview
We're looking for a Principal Engineer within the Australian Pacific timezone. You'll be part of a growing team, crafting our next-generation products and delivering value to our customers through creative improvements. You'll play a force-multiplier role, steering the engineering strategy, laying sound development principles, and driving scalable, fit-for-purpose architecture. You will also work with Product Management, Design, and Engineering Leadership to help inform product and platform strategy, and will report directly to the Senior Engineering Manager. You will joining the Continuous Control Monitoring team in Engineering Health. The CCM team provides a way for all Atlassian engineering teams to continuously evaluate their data to make sure their services are adhering to controls in the compliance space.
What you'll do
You'll be a hands-on engineer and will be accountable for backend related technical challengesWrite performant production-quality code in Java and Python.Tackle the largest and most complex features / problems on their team, from technical design to launch.Drive large, complex projects autonomously, from technical design to launch focusing on customer value.Work with the engineering and business teams to define long-term vision and map company-level initiatives to team-level roadmaps.Focus on solutions to help reduce the operational burden and tech debt, improve feature velocity and system health.Improve systems at scale.Have passion for collaborating with and mentoring members of the team.Teach others how to apply architecture patterns common to the team.Focus on business practicality and the 80/20 rule; very high bar for output quality, but recognise the business benefit of "having something now" vs "perfection sometime in the future".
Your background
You are an engineer at heart with experience tech leading large (multi-geo, multi-team) and complex projects.Have strong expertise in Java and Python.Have 10+ years of experience delivering new features or products.Have experience working closely with product and engineering management to define the technical strategy and roadmap.Have knowledge to evaluate trade-offs between correctness, robustness, performance, space and time.Have experience supporting and influencing senior engineers and principal engineers with technical mentorship and growth.Have experience partnering with technical teams, solving architectural challenges for company-wide initiatives, often spanning across several projects.You are on top of industry trends to better inform our approach and ensure our platform continues to delight developers.
Our perks & benefits
Atlassian offers a variety of perks and benefits to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health coverage, paid volunteer days, wellness resources, and so much more. Visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefitsto learn more.
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.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh.