Principal Software Engineer - Kubernetese Platform

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.

What's the principal engineer role? As an Engineer well into your career, we know you're an expert at what you do and have a breadth of experience across multiple backend technologies. You take pride in being someone who more junior members look up to and sharing your expertise with others... That's why we're placing a heavy emphasis on leaning on your expertise to take on a high level of responsibility while being a role model and mentor to others on the team.

In this role, you'll get the chance to:

• Collaborate with other core engineering teams and internal customers to help define technical direction and OKRs for the Compute Platform team.
• Automating and building a self-serve Kubernetes platform for consumption of all Atlassian engineers across various products.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration and deliver a seamless compute platform experience.
• Evaluate and implement new cloud native technologies and frameworks to enhance platform capabilities, designed with security, performance, testability and scalability in mind.
• Contribute to and execute a strategic vision for the compute platform that aligns with the company's goals and objectives.
• Routinely tackle complex architecture challenges and apply architectural standards and start using them on new projects.
• Lead code reviews and documentation, and address complex bug fixes, especially for high-risk issues. Set a standard for comprehensive and effective code reviews.
• Own engineering and operational excellence for the health of our systems and processes.
• Help hire and mentor engineers to build an open, innovative and operationally responsible culture.

• Strong technical expertise and 10+ years experience in designing/developing/building enterprise grade public cloud or platform as a service solutions.
• Deep understanding of cloud computing, container orchestration tools like Kubernetes/Mesos/Swarm, microservices architecture, and container orchestration technologies.
• Experience building and operating large scale distributed systems using cloud technologies from AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Expert-level experience with one or more prominent languages such as Golang, Java, Python, C# or C/C++ is crucial.
• Passion for engineering rigor and operational excellence (design principles and patterns, unit testing, best practices for security and privacy, CI/CD etc). You will be a role model for operational responsibility and data-driven engineering rigor.
• Excellent collaboration, communication and leadership skills. Ability to get engineers to follow their lead as well as mentor/coach
• High level of energy and a desire to innovate in a large, fast-paced organization; ability to balance multiple projects under pressure

• Hands-on experience with managing Kubernetes clusters, preferably building Kubernetes Operators, Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) and Controllers.
• Significant experience in Multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure.
• Experience with load balancing, scaling strategies, and performance and cost optimization in a cloud environment.