Senior Principal Engineer - Enterprise Engineering

Requirements:

• Strong technical leadership and expertise with significant experience in designing, building and shipping enterprise-grade solutions
• Proficiency in Java or another JVM-based language. Working knowledge of OSGi will be a bonus
• Experience in designing and building broadly used scalable platforms and platform components
• A desire to influence the company's technical direction and educating the broader organization in your area of expertise
• Passion for software engineering excellence and providing technical guidance, coaching, and mentorship
• Experience recognizing, raising, and reconciling gaps and redundant efforts across organisations
• Ability to develop clear technical solutions, getting engineers to follow your lead and collaborating across multiple engineering teams and leaders
• Hands-on experience with coding and fluency in at least one of the following languages: Java, Kotlin, C, C#, C++
• Bias for action and influence by doing the technical work and leading by example

What you'll be doing:

• Inspire engineers to ship their best code and motivate those around you to continuously improve
• Define and articulate a compelling vision and roadmap for multiple missions across Team Enterprise Data Center
• Partner across engineering teams to take on group-wide projects
• Collaborate across partners and organizations
• Influence and inspire technical teams by setting an example of engineering excellence in design, architecture, code, and development practices
• Design and code systems that are testable, maintainable, reliable, secure, and scalable
• Mentor and coach engineers and engineering managers
• Be a trusted advisor to heads of engineering within Team Enterprise and across the company
• Uncover future needs and challenges while also digging into our current and most important engineering challenges
• Stay up to date with new technologies and assess their impact on Atlassian trajectory
• Champion Team Enterprise inside Atlassian and champion Atlassian externally and across the industry

Nice to haves:

• Higher education in a field related to Computer Science, although your demonstrable competence in just getting to a shippable solution is of far more value to us
• In-depth knowledge of public cloud
• Experience with large scale distributed systems, cloud data, storage technologies, cloud security and reliability, encryption or cryptography
• Experience leading teams of engineers through large complex projects involving radical changes to the technology stack