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Atlassian

Senior Principal Engineer - Enterprise Platform

London, United Kingdom / Remote

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.

To help our teams work together effectively, this role is fully remote, but requires you to be located either in Poland or in the United Kingdom.

The Enterprise Platform team is composed of people with diverse backgrounds delivering secure and scalable shared software components for Enterprise products like Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo and Crowd. We are a growing high impact team empowering dozens of internal development teams building Enterprise products and hundreds of external teams developing Marketplace Apps.

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We're hiring Senior Principal Architect/Software Engineers to join our growing teams. You will report to Senior Engineering Manager in Enterprise Core. In this role, you will focus on a technical strategy that aligns with the Enterprise technical vision, guided by the Lead Principle Engineer, and bring it to reality across the Enterprise Platform. This position would work across ~70 member development team building platform capabilities and tools helping our developers and support engineers and collaborate with architects across Atlassian to implement practices and policies. It is a remote role in Poland.

What you'll do

  • Shape the forward-looking technical direction and long-term architecture for Enterprise platform and Enterprise products
  • Use your deep technical skills to help guide and mentor other developers, product managers, and senior managers, ensuring the team understands the vision, and help realize that vision.
  • Work with Enterprise leadership and provide technical input on roadmap planning.
  • Partner with principal engineers and architects from other teams and drive exploration of large-scale projects spanning multiple teams in Enterprise
  • Solve interesting, complex problems from technical design to launch.
  • Improve, through example, the quality of software construction and meaningful code reviews in an agile environment.
  • Be a role model for, and influence a large team of engineers at multiple seniority levels all the way from grads to principal engineers, and mentor engineers across the teams.
  • Be influential within your team and work with peers and senior leaders to define and revise the standards for operational excellence across Atlassian.

Your background

  • 10+ years of experience building software, with 4+ years in an architect/principal role working across teams
  • Proficiency in Java or another JVM-based language. Working knowledge of OSGi will be a bonus. Experience in another object-oriented programming language is also acceptable, but you need to be willing to work with a Java tech stack.
  • Broad experience architecting, designing, and building large-scale systems with multiple dependencies.
  • Passion for building quality solutions and up-keeping quality standards.
  • Success with building, expressing, and pitching a technical vision to stakeholders.
  • Experience with collaboration with an ecosystem of teams
  • Success with leading the long-term strategy for software architecture
  • Experience with Enterprise Customers
  • Experience in operational requirements and common challenges of software systems
  • Experience working on developer productivity initiatives.
  • Experience working on security and compliance-related features.
  • Proficiency in spoken and written English

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/perksandbenefitsto 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.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian

Client-provided location(s): London, UK; Gdańsk, Poland
Job ID: Atlassian-12790
Employment Type: Full Time

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Health Insurance
    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • Life Insurance
    • Short-Term Disability
    • Long-Term Disability
    • FSA
    • HSA With Employer Contribution
    • Fitness Subsidies
    • Mental Health Benefits
    • On-Site Gym
    • HSA
  • Parental Benefits

    • Adoption Leave
    • Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
    • Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
    • Fertility Benefits
    • Adoption Assistance Program
    • Family Support Resources
  • Work Flexibility

    • Flexible Work Hours
    • Remote Work Opportunities
    • Hybrid Work Opportunities
    • Work-From-Home Stipend
  • Office Life and Perks

    • Holiday Events
    • Casual Dress
    • Pet-friendly Office
    • Happy Hours
    • Snacks
    • Some Meals Provided
    • On-Site Cafeteria
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Paid Vacation
    • Unlimited Paid Time Off
    • Paid Holidays
    • Personal/Sick Days
    • Volunteer Time Off
    • Sabbatical
    • Leave of Absence
  • Financial and Retirement

    • 401(K) With Company Matching
    • Company Equity
    • Performance Bonus
    • Relocation Assistance
    • Financial Counseling
  • Professional Development

    • Access to Online Courses
    • Internship Program
    • Leadership Training Program
    • Tuition Reimbursement
    • Learning and Development Stipend
    • Promote From Within
  • Diversity and Inclusion

    • Founder led
    • Employee Resource Groups (ERG)
    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program

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