Principal Engineer, Search Platform Job at Atlassian (Bengaluru)

Sr. Principal Software Engineer – Search & Recommendation

We are seeking a Sr. Principal Search & Recommendation Engineer to lead the desi...

Location

United States , Seattle

Salary:

277391.00 - 342391.00 USD / Year

Highspot

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

8+ years of experience building and scaling search or recommendation systems in production environments
Deep expertise in information retrieval, ranking algorithms, collaborative filtering, and/or neural search techniques
Strong programming skills in Python, Java, or Scala
experience with ML and IR frameworks such as Elasticsearch, FAISS, TensorFlow, or PyTorch
Familiarity with LLMs, embeddings, and modern vector search infrastructure
Proven leadership in cross-functional environments with a track record of mentoring and guiding technical teams
Strong grasp of MLOps practices and experience with cloud-native ML infrastructure (e.g., AWS, GCP)

Job Responsibility

Lead the end-to-end development of modern search and recommendation systems, from architecture to production deployment
Drive technical strategy and innovation in search relevance, personalized ranking, semantic search, and ML-powered retrieval/grounding
Collaborate with product, design, and data teams to define and deliver intelligent user experiences
Influence platform-level decisions on data pipelines, experimentation frameworks, and performance optimization
Mentor engineers, foster technical excellence, and promote a culture of learning and innovation

What we offer

Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, disability, and life benefits
Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution
401(k) Matching with immediate vesting on employer match
Flexible PTO
8 paid holidays and 5 paid days for Annual Holiday Week
Quarterly Recharge Fridays (paid days off for mental health recharge)
18 weeks paid parental leave
Access to Coaches and Therapists through Modern Health
2 volunteer days per year
Commuting benefits

Fulltime

Senior Principal Data Platform Software Engineer

We’re looking for a Sr Principal Data Platform Software Engineer (P70) to be a k...

Location

Salary:

239400.00 - 312550.00 USD / Year

Atlassian

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

15+ years in Data Engineering, Software Engineering, or related roles, with substantial exposure to big data ecosystems
Demonstrated experience building and operating data platforms or large‑scale data services in production
Proven track record of building services from the ground up (requirements → design → implementation → deployment → ongoing ownership)
Hands‑on experience with AWS, GCP (e.g., compute, storage, data, and streaming services) and cloud‑native architectures
Practical experience with big data technologies, such as Databricks, Apache Spark, AWS EMR, Apache Flink, or StarRocks
Strong programming skills in one or more of: Kotlin, Scala, Java, Python
Experience leading cross‑team technical initiatives and influencing senior stakeholders
Experience mentoring Staff/Principal engineers and lifting the technical bar for a team or org
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Job Responsibility

Design, develop and own delivery of high quality big data and analytical platform solutions aiming to solve Atlassian’s needs to support millions of users with optimal cost, minimal latency and maximum reliability
Improve and operate large‑scale distributed data systems in the cloud (primarily AWS, with increasing integration with GCP and Kubernetes‑based microservices)
Drive the evolution of our high-performance analytical databases and its integrations with products, cloud infrastructures (AWS and GCP) and isolated cloud environments
Help define and uplift engineering and operational standards for petabyte scale data platforms, with sub‑second analytic queries and multi‑region availability (coding guidelines, code review practices, observability, incident response, SLIs/SLOs)
Partner across multiple product and platform teams (including Analytics, Marketplace/Ecosystem, Core Data Platform, ML Platform, Search, and Oasis/FedRAMP) to deliver company‑wide initiatives that depend on reliable, high‑quality data
Act as a technical mentor and multiplier, raising the bar on design quality, code quality, and operational excellence across the broader team
Design and implement self‑healing, resilient data platforms with strong observability, fault tolerance, and recovery characteristics
Own the long‑term architecture and technical direction of Atlassian’s product data platform with projects that are directly tied to Atlassian’s company-level OKRs
Be accountable for the reliability, cost efficiency, and strategic direction of Atlassian’s product analytical data platform
Partner with executives and influence senior leaders to align engineering efforts with Atlassian’s long-term business objectives

What we offer

health and wellbeing resources
paid volunteer days

Fulltime

Senior Principal Technical Program Manager - ML Platform

Location

Salary:

231300.00 - 301975.00 USD / Year

Atlassian

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

8+ years of experience on software teams as Development Manager, Technical Product Manager or TPM leading technical platforms areas
Deep domain experience in AI and/or Search. Example: Model Inference, Model Evaluation, Model Training, LLM Ops, Semantic Search, Search Relevance, etc.
Partner with Engineering in defining direction, strategy and execution at Platform level
Strategic thinking and ability to understand business objectives to translate them into technical problems and programs.
Technical understanding of systems involved. Willingness to develop domain expertise in the area they operate - storage, networking, authentication, capacity management, service deployments, etc.
TPMs are not expected to write or read code, but are expected to understand system flows, block architectures, APIs and such.
Experience defining and running end-to-end complex technical programs
Strong leadership, organizational, and communication skills

Job Responsibility

Understand and stay up-to-date on latest innovations in AI and Search. Partner closely with engineering teams to translate these into practical platform evolution for Atlassian bringing value to our customers.
Analyze business objectives, customer needs, product adoption inhibitors and opportunities, industry trends, and based on these, in close collaboration with your stakeholders, define a long-term strategy and roadmap for your platform and product components.
Understand business objectives and translate them into technical systems problems that need to be prioritized solved in the current business environment.
Define specific systems programs and create a plan of action for realizing those programs. Such programs could be around capacity planning, migration efforts, high availability, network architecture, performance optimization, reliability improvements and more.
Use your technical understanding of Atlassian and related systems to partner with and influence engineers and architects in making progress on these problems.
Responsible for taking a systematic approach to engineering problems. This includes: prioritizing tasks, scoping out the project, defining objectives, and making consistent progress against each of these.
Be accountable for the success of these technical programs by managing the entire lifecycle from initiation to forecasting, budgeting, scheduling, etc.
Manage complex dependencies and projects with a broad scope across the company

What we offer

health and wellbeing resources
paid volunteer days

Senior Principal Software Engineer

To become a 100 year company, we need a world-class engineering organisation mad...

Location

India , Bengaluru

Salary:

Not provided

Atlassian

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

15+ years of experience building and developing backend applications - Bachelor's or Master's degree with a preference for Computer Science degree
Experience crafting and implementing highly scalable and performant micro-services
Proficiency in any modern object-oriented programming language (e.g., Java, Kotlin, etc.)
Real passion for collaboration and strong interpersonal and communication skills
Familiarity with cloud architecture patterns and an engineering discipline to produce software with quality
Experience in Elasticsearch, being able to deep dive into performance at scale problems, is a bonus

Job Responsibility

Build and ship JQL Search features and capabilities daily in highly scalable, cross-geo distributed environment
Be responsible technical evolution for products and platforms in JQL Search and partially in Jira Platform
Be part of an amazing open and collaborative work environment with other experienced engineers, architects, product managers, and designers, working closely with JQL Search and collaborating with other Jira Platform or Jira product teams
Mentor and level up the skills of your teammates by sharing your expertise in formal and informal knowledge sharing sessions
Ensure full visibility, error reporting, and monitoring of high performing backend services
Foster a culture of efficient delivery

What we offer

Health coverage
Paid volunteer days
Wellness resources
Visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits to learn more

Fulltime

Principal Product Manager, Search

This position is a Principle Product Manager within Core DEMS, the team responsi...

Location

United States , Seattle

Salary:

162000.00 - 237600.00 USD / Year

Axon

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

10+ years relevant software Product Management experience ideally in Search or a Search-related function
Direct collaboration with engineers to balance scope, time to market, and functionality, constantly making trade-offs using qualitative, quantitative, and absent data
Excellent problem-solving skills, well-structured written and verbal communication
Proven track record of delivering successful products that achieve key business outcomes
Strong written and verbal communication to effectively align multiple audiences across different teams, timezones, and levels of the organization.
Strong knowledge of project management principles, seeing around corners
Ongoing assessment of program opportunities for improvements and skill improvement
Flexibility to travel domestically and internationally when necessary (10%)

Job Responsibility

Define and evolve the Search Platform vision for DEMS — how evidence is indexed, queried, ranked, and retrieved across video, audio, image, and metadata sources.
Build and maintain a multi-year roadmap for search platform capabilities by synthesizing feedback from customers, engineering, and internal product teams that depend on DEMS search APIs.
Partner closely with engineering to design scalable indexing pipelines, optimize query performance, and balance search precision, recall, and latency targets.
Collaborate with data and relevance teams to improve ranking logic, query understanding, and semantic retrieval while ensuring stability and backward compatibility across DEMS experiences.
Operate with high autonomy, proactively clarifying priorities, requirements, and trade-offs across teams that depend on search as shared infrastructure.
Define and track key performance metrics such as query latency, index freshness, retrieval accuracy, and system reliability, driving continuous improvement through instrumentation and experimentation.

What we offer

Competitive salary and 401k with employer match
Discretionary paid time off
Paid parental leave for all
Medical, Dental, Vision plans
Fitness Programs
Emotional & Mental Wellness support
Learning & Development programs
Snacks in our offices

Fulltime

Principal Software Engineer - Central AI

The Central AI org’s purpose is to accelerate AI innovation across all our produ...

Location

United States , Mountain View; San Francisco; Austin; New York

Salary:

170800.00 - 274300.00 USD / Year

Atlassian

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Minimum of 12 years of hands-on experience in software/technology roles, in Enterprise Products & Solutions in the cloud
Proficiency with cloud-native technologies, ideally AWS
At least 2 years of experience architecting and implementing multiple features of a SaaS product at a high scale, performance and reliability of 4 nines
Experience with building and delivering multi-tenant cloud-native SaaS software
Strong understanding of distributed systems, modern cloud-native architectures, and distributed data management
Excellent communication skills and demonstrated success in articulating and pitching technical vision to stakeholders
Ability to balance short- and long-term objectives, focusing on both technical and business outcomes

Job Responsibility

Shape the forward-looking technical direction and long-term architecture for pillars in the Search and Data Ecosystem org
Collaborate with product, engineering, and design leaders to influence the broader department-level strategy
Ensure that the technical strategy you build is aligned with the technical strategy of Atlassian products and platforms
Regularly unblock challenges faced in the software development cycle, from technical design to launch
Lead code reviews and documentation and take on complex bug fixes, especially on high-risk problems
Set the standards for shipping high quality code at high velocity by improving the developer experience
Mentor, hire and develop other engineers

What we offer

health and wellbeing resources
paid volunteer days

Fulltime

Principal AI Engineer

We are looking for a Principal AI Engineer to lead the design and deployment of ...

Location

United States

Salary:

200000.00 - 300000.00 USD / Year

Apollo.io

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

10+ years of software engineering experience
at least 3 years in applied LLM or agentic AI systems (2023–present)
proven success in deploying LLM-powered products used by real users at scale
deep backend & systems engineering expertise with Python, distributed systems, and scalable APIs
familiarity with LangChain, LlamaIndex, or similar orchestration frameworks
experience with RAG pipelines, vector DBs, embedding models, and semantic search tuning
experience managing performance across cloud providers (e.g., AWS Bedrock, OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.)
demonstrated experience building multi-step agents, planning workflows, chaining reasoning steps, and integrating APIs with agent memory/state
comfort with advanced prompting strategies, few-shot and chain-of-thought reasoning, and embedding retrieval setups
strong understanding of AI system evaluation, human ratings, A/B experimentation, and feedback loop pipelines

Job Responsibility

Architect and lead the development of multi-agent systems capable of long-horizon planning, reasoning, and API orchestration
build reusable agentic components that integrate deeply into sales and marketing processes
own and evolve our in-house platform for scalable, low-latency, and cost-efficient LLM and agent deployments
lead design of interfaces powered by natural language understanding and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
build embedding-based, intent-aware search and personalization systems tuned to business user needs
drive innovation in personalized outreach generation using context-aware generation pipelines
tune inference pipelines, caching layers, and model selection logic for high-scale, cost-aware performance
define and drive robust offline and online testing methodologies (A/B, sandboxing, human evals) across agents and LLM flows
architect human-in-the-loop systems and telemetry to improve accuracy, UX, and explainability over time

What we offer

equity
company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses
401(k) plan
at least 10 paid holidays per year
flex PTO
parental leave
employee assistance program
wellbeing benefits
global travel coverage
life/AD&D/STD/LTD insurance

Fulltime

Principal Technical Program Manager - AI and Search Infrastructure

Atlassians can choose where they work – whether in an office, from home, or a co...

Location

United States , San Francisco; Mountain View; Seattle

Salary:

166100.00 - 266800.00 USD / Year

Atlassian

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Minimum of 5+ years of experience with deep domain expertise in the areas of Search Infrastructure (i.e. Search Quality, Search Relevance, Vector Search) or Artificial Intelligence (i.e. LLMs, Inference, Fine-tuning, Content Generation)
Minimum 10+ years of experience in Technical Product / Program Management or Technical Leadership role
Experience in 0-1 product / platform development and scaling
Excellent collaborator who can work across teams effectively and represent domain area to senior leadership (VP+ levels)
Experience in gathering product needs, setting strategy & plans, creating clear roadmap with aligned success metrics
Experience driving platform evangelization and adoption internally and with external customers (i.e. Enterprise / SMB)
Experience building platform products for Enterprise is a plus
Master degree or higher education in Computer Science is a plus
Excellent verbal, written, and facilitation skills (including experience with facilitating meetings and engaging with an executive audience)
Demonstrated experience and success leading high-impact, cross-functional programs or products

Job Responsibility

Own the strategic vision for Atlassian platform area (i.e. AI, Search Infra) with focus of driving best outcomes for customers (Atlassians)
Provide technical expertise for Atlassian platform area (AI or Search Infra)
Define product / platform strategy, plans, priorities and roadmap
Partner with engineering team and other disciplines on strategy, plans, roadmaps and execution
Lead communication with senior leadership, customers and stakeholders on regular cadence
Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to measure the effectiveness of key initiatives / projects

What we offer

health coverage
paid volunteer days
wellness resources

Fulltime

Principal Engineer, Search Platform

Atlassian

Location:
India , Bengaluru

Category:
IT - Software Development

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Job Posted:
March 19, 2025

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