Principle Engineer

Atlassian is hiring a Principal Engineer to tackle complex engineering problems from technical design through launch and provide technical leadership on high-impact projects. The role drives architectural standards, company-wide engineering initiatives, engineering excellence, and the growth of technical leaders.

Responsibilities:

• Regularly tackle the largest and most complex problems on the team, from technical design to launch
• Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects and determine plans-of-attack on large projects
• Routinely tackle complex architecture challenges and apply architectural standards and start using them on new projects
• Be a champion across the Atlassian organisation for continually raising the technical bar and evangelizing a high technical standard
• Partner across Engineering teams to take on company-wide initiatives spanning multiple projects
• Transfer your depth of knowledge and share best engineering practices to improve engineering excellence
• Mentor and grow the next generation of technical leaders at Atlassian

Requirements:

• 10+ years experience in Full Stack development with one or more prominent languages such as Javascript, React, Java, Kotlin, Scala, Node, etc
• Bachelor's or Master's degree
• equivalent experience
• Deep experience in systems engineering at scale with regards to testing, reliability, security, and observability
• Excellent communication skills in written and verbal forms, and an ability to communicate complex technical issues to a range of technical and non-technical audiences (management, peers)
• Experience with collaborating with and mentoring junior members of the team
• Consider the customer impact when making technical decisions
• Familiarity with A/B testing techniques
• preferably a Computer Science degree
• Strong preference for candidates located in or aligned with the Pacific Time (PT) zone