Principal Software Engineer

Atlassian
Mountain View, Seattle, San Francisco
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 174,051 - 273,775 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Technical leadership","RFC writing","Cross-functional communication","Mentorship","Architecture reviews"]

Lead the technical architecture for next-generation third-party (3P) connectors in the Rovo & AI org. Drive connector vision and roadmaps across SaaS ecosystems, architect high-throughput ingestion and delta-sync pipelines, and operationalize reliability with SLOs, deep observability, and error budgets. Author RFCs/ADRs, standardize orchestration patterns with platform teams, and collaborate with Search/Graph/AI teams to enable high-fidelity RAG retrieval, enterprise search, and agentic workflows.

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Principal Software Engineer

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Job Summary

Lead the technical architecture for next-generation third-party (3P) connectors in the Rovo & AI org. Drive connector vision and roadmaps across SaaS ecosystems, architect high-throughput ingestion and delta-sync pipelines, and operationalize reliability with SLOs, deep observability, and error budgets. Author RFCs/ADRs, standardize orchestration patterns with platform teams, and collaborate with Search/Graph/AI teams to enable high-fidelity RAG retrieval, enterprise search, and agentic workflows.
Location: Mountain View, Seattle, San Francisco
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Define the technical vision, architectural roadmap, and design principles for building and modernizing third-party connectors across major SaaS ecosystems.
  • •Architect high-throughput data extraction and delta-sync pipelines to process enterprise artifacts in near real time.
  • •Partner with platform teams to standardize orchestration and execution patterns using shared distributed task and scheduling architectures.
  • •Operationalize connector reliability with SLOs, deep observability, and error budgets to ensure data freshness and system resilience.
  • •Author RFCs and architecture reviews while mentoring engineers, and collaborate with Search/Graph/AI teams to structure third-party context for RAG retrieval and agentic workflows.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 174,051 - 273,775 annually

Key Requirements

  • •Deep experience architecting, building, and operating high-throughput data ingestion, ETL pipelines, or SaaS integration services in production.
  • •Track record managing distributed systems against strict SLOs, with comprehensive telemetry/tracing and operational readiness at scale.
  • •Ability to lead technical vision across multiple concurrent connector workstreams and translate product strategy into technical execution.
  • •Strong communication skills to align with Product, Design, and platform engineering teams, with experience growing and coaching senior engineers.
  • •Experience with identity/security and enterprise API integrations is a plus (e.g., OAuth 2.0, ACL/permissions mapping, rate limits, pagination, webhooks, delta sync APIs).
Skills:Technical leadershipRFC writingCross-functional communicationMentorshipArchitecture reviews
Tech Stack:ETLDistributed systemsTelemetryTracingSLOsOAuth 2.02LO3LOEntra IDActive DirectoryACLEnterprise APIsWebhooksDelta syncPaginationRate limitsOrchestrationSchedulingAI-assisted developmentTest automation

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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