Senior Principal Engineer, Compute Platform

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The Core Engineering Compute Platform team is responsible for powering all of Atlassian products. Our mission is to help all Atlassian engineers build great products, deploy and run them on a reliable, fast, globally distributed, cost effective enterprise grade compute infrastructure.

You will be responsible for driving architectural decisions, leading complex projects, and mentoring a team of talented engineers. Your work will directly impact the scalability, performance, and reliability across all of Atlassian s product, ensuring that it meets the demanding needs of our global user base.

Your role

As a Senior Principal Engineer in the Core Engineering team, you will help envision, build and evolve a cutting-edge platform for deploying and running all Atlassian products . You will use your deep expertise in Cloud and container technologies and systems to solve some of our most complex problems including infrastructure, data and architectural challenges.

As a senior technical leader, you will be expected to lead other engineers to define our strategic technical direction, and to execute involved projects from design to launch. You will widely collaborate with other product teams and leaders globally to influence, set expectations, gather inputs and communicate results. Your role is pivotal in identifying and driving step-change initiatives, ensuring best of class of compute infrastructure availability for developers across all of our products for all our customers.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with other core engineering teams and internal customers to help define technical direction and OKRs for the Compute Platform team.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration and deliver a seamless compute platform experience.

• Evaluate and implement new technologies and frameworks to enhance platform capabilities, designed with security, performance, and scalability in mind.

• Own key OKRs and end-to-end outcomes of critical projects in a globally distributed environment

• Develop and execute a strategic vision for the compute platform that aligns with the company s goals and objectives.

• Identify opportunities for innovation and improvement in platform services and developer tools.

• Own engineering and operational excellence for the health of our systems and processes. Proactively drive opportunities for continuous improvements and own key operational metrics.

• Continually drive developer productivity initiatives to ensure that we unleash the potential of our own team.

• Help hire and mentor engineers to build an open, innovative and operationally responsible culture.

Qualifications

On your first day, we ll expect you to have

• Strong technical expertise and 12+ years experience in designing/building enterprise grade public cloud or platform as a service solutions.

• Proven experience in a senior engineering leadership role, preferably in a large-scale, distributed systems environment.

• Deep understanding of cloud computing, Kubernetes, microservices architecture, and container orchestration technologies.

• Experience building and operating large scale distributed systems using cloud technologies from AWS/Azure/GCP.

• Focus on business outcomes and the 80/20 rule; very high bar for output quality, but recognize the business benefit of ship small, ship fast and iterate vs building for perfection

• 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

If you ve got these skills, even better

• 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.

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