Lead Principal Engineer Job at Atlassian (Washington DC)

Lead Principal Engineer

Atlassian

Location:
United States , Washington DC ▼
San Francisco
Austin
Mountain View
New York

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Employment contract

Salary:

223100.00 - 358400.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

Atlassian Corporate Engineering is seeking a Lead Principal Engineer to drive our Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Support technology landscape forward by leading engineering efforts towards our next generation of applications, building strong partnerships and collaborations across Atlassian, ensuring that our product portfolio is cohesive, consistent, and integrated with the broader Atlassian ecosystem.

Job Responsibility:

Create a vision for a connected ecosystem, and lead the engineering organization to deliver on a cohesive experience
Develop engineering excellence standards and drive adoption of those across the entire organization
Support the teams' transformation to data-driven decision making, defining metrics and implementing their measurement
Work with dependency teams to develop a plan and roadmap, integrating our products into the broader Atlassian ecosystem
Help with hiring and mentoring other engineers on team
Act as Technical Lead for a large area, providing leadership to other senior technical leads
Build relationships with key stakeholders and Engineering leaders across Atlassian.

Requirements:

BS in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent experience
15+ years of experience developing large-scale distributed systems
4+ years of experience providing architectural oversight and technical leadership
A track record of engineering in successful products
Excellent communication skills and a track record of cross-group/cross-discipline collaboration
Broad experience architecting, designing, and building large-scale distributed systems supporting high-usage applications
Broad knowledge and understanding of SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS with hands-on experience with one or more public cloud offerings (ideally AWS)
Fluency in any modern object-oriented programming language (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Python, Javascript, go, etc.) and in architecture patterns for distributed systems
Deep Experience with Storage, both relational and non-relational
Experience with applied Machine Learning
Able to drive long-term vision and strategy
Have strong empathy and a bias for action
Quick learner who thrives in an ambiguous environment.

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Job Posted:
March 19, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

On-site work

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