Senior Principal Engineer - Jira Platform

Atlassian
Bengaluru
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringSkills: ["Technical leadership","Mentoring","Adaptability","Problem-solving","Quality improvement"]

Shape the long-term architecture and technical strategy for Jira Data Management within the Jira Platform. Lead major architectural initiatives across enterprise-scale data movement, governance, resiliency, and data health. Define a 12–24 month roadmap for platform primitives, raise standards for reliability, performance, observability, security, and operational excellence, and provide hands-on technical leadership through design reviews, investigations, and incident reviews for Jira Cloud.

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Senior Principal Engineer - Jira Platform

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Job Summary

Shape the long-term architecture and technical strategy for Jira Data Management within the Jira Platform. Lead major architectural initiatives across enterprise-scale data movement, governance, resiliency, and data health. Define a 12–24 month roadmap for platform primitives, raise standards for reliability, performance, observability, security, and operational excellence, and provide hands-on technical leadership through design reviews, investigations, and incident reviews for Jira Cloud.
Location: Bengaluru
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own the technical evolution and long-term architecture of Jira Data Management for enterprise-scale data movement, governance, resiliency, and data health.
  • •Lead the largest architectural initiatives across Jira Platform, from strategy and milestones through delivery, adoption, and customer outcomes.
  • •Define and drive a 12–24 month roadmap for shared platform primitives, identifying gaps and trade-offs on priorities.
  • •Raise standards for reliability, performance, observability, security, and operational excellence across systems handling critical enterprise data.
  • •Provide hands-on technical leadership through design reviews, deep investigations, incident reviews, high-risk problem solving, and mentoring engineers.

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • •12+ years developing large-scale distributed systems.
  • •4+ years providing architectural oversight and technical leadership.
  • •Proven experience shaping technical direction across teams and influencing architecture beyond a single service.
  • •Experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems, data streaming platforms, and event-driven architecture.
Education:
Skills:Technical leadershipMentoringAdaptabilityProblem-solvingQuality improvement
Tech Stack:JiraJira CloudAWSGCPJavaGolangPythonJavaScriptSaaSPaaSIaaSDistributed systemsData streamingEvent-driven architecture

Company Brief

Atlassian
Atlassian develops collaboration and workflow software—Jira, Confluence, Trello, Loom and more—used by teams for project management, software development, and IT service management across enterprises worldwide.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Sydney, Australia
Founded: 2002
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