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Senior Principal Software Engineer - Platform Engineering

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Hiring Remotely in Sydney, New South Wales
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Hiring Remotely in Sydney, New South Wales
Expert/Leader
As a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Atlassian, you will lead the design and implementation of the platform engineering strategy, solve complex architectural challenges, mentor other engineers, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to advance the technical evolution of the organization.
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Working at Atlassian
Atlassians can choose where they work - whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.
This is a remote role and with a sufficient timezone overlap with the team, we're able to hire eligible candidates for this role from any location in Australia and New Zealand providing you have eligible working rights.
Your future team
Our Platform Engineering Organisation is leading some of Atlassian's most exciting and largest transformations that are critical in unleashing the potential of all teams for our customers.
We're hiring for Senior Principal Engineers to join our Platform Engineering Organisation, which is spearheading some of Atlassian's most critical and exciting transformations. You will report to the Head of Engineering and solve complex architectural challenges on a global scale. You will bring your expertise to lead multi-year projects that align with key company objectives and directly connect technical solutions to company goals.
Inspire innovation by solving complex problems, proposing solutions, and influencing leadership to implement them, while advancing technical evolution and engineering culture across APAC and beyond through collaboration, enhanced architectures, and the adoption of new technologies.
Responsibilities
What you'll do

  • Shape the forward-looking technical direction and long-term architecture for pillars in the Platform Organisation
  • 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
  • Partner with principal engineers and architects from other teams and guide exploration of large-scale projects spanning multiple teams in Enterprise
  • Propel technical evolution while enhancing the engineering culture across APAC and beyond, promoting cross-team collaboration and delivering measurable results.
  • Be influential within your team and work with peers and senior leaders to define and revise the standards for operational excellence across Atlassian.
  • Mentor, hire and develop other engineers.


Qualifications
Your background

  • Minimum of 15 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 6 years of experience architecting and implementing multiple features of a SaaS product at a high scale, performance and reliability of at least 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.
  • Experience communicating updates and resolutions to senior and executive level stakeholders and other partners to drive the mission forward.
  • Passion for maintaining high-quality standards in software development.
  • Success in articulating and pitching a technical vision to stakeholders.
  • Ability to balance short- and long-term objectives, focusing on both technical and business outcomes.


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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/perksandbenefits to 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.
To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh .

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