Senior Principal Engineer, PaaS

Working at AtlassianAtlassian can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity. Assuming you have eligible working rights and a sufficient time zone overlap with your team, you can choose to work remotely or from an office (unless it’s necessary for your role to be performed in the office). Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.To help our teams work together, you will work a schedule that is centered around the Australian Eastern timezone (AEST) with teams in Australia. You will report to the Head of Engineering in Sydney.Micros is Atlassian's PaaS (Platform as a Service). It is the centerpiece of our internal developer platform and is used daily by thousands of developers. It hosts thousands of microservices that power Atlassian's Cloud services.As a Senior Principal Engineer for Micros, you will be in the driver's seat working with the industry's best to shape its roadmap so it can scale to support the growing needs of the business. We want people who can think macro and dive deep. You'll be hands-on and develop real-world experience in building, operating, and improving our systems.Working with our backend engineering teams, this is an opportunity to solve challenges that only exist at this scale.

On your first day, we'll expect you to have:

• Deep technical expertise and 10+ years of experience designing/building enterprise-grade platforms. Fluency in the current landscape (compute technologies including containerized and serverless architecture)
• Experience understanding teams' pain points increasing dev productivity
• A track record driving resolution of extremely complex issues, from deep-diving into an important customer issue all the way to driving its resolution within the engineering team of a vendor.
• Experience with infrastructure at a scale that pushes the vendor limits. You know how to design systems that will gracefully tolerate hitting unknown limits and have experience with architectures that allow to overtake those limits such as sharding and cell-based architecture.
• Experience recognising, raising, and reconciling gaps and opportunities across organizations
• The energy and desire to excel in a rapidly-evolving organization; balancing multiple projects under pressure
• Experience designing and building scalable infrastructure platforms used by hundreds of service owners
• Passion to lead Atlassian's technical direction - driving service architecture through collaboration across multiple departments, each of which has hundreds of developers

It's great to have:

• Experience with public cloud (we're on AWS, but we also believe skills with other cloud providers are transferrable)
• Experience with Kubernetes, Service Mesh technologies
• Experience with cloud data and storage technologies
• Experience in networking technologies, cloud security, and reliability

Our perks & benefitsTo support you at work and play, our perks and benefits include ample time off, an annual education budget, paid volunteer days, and so much more.About AtlassianThe world’s best teams work better together with Atlassian. From medicine and space travel, to disaster response and pizza deliveries, Atlassian software products help teams all over the planet. At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team.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 learn more about our culture and hiring process, explore our Candidate Resource Hub.