Senior Principal Software Engineer

2 weeks ago


Sydney, Australia Atlassian Full time

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.

This is a remote role and with a sufficient timezone overlap with the team, we're able to hire eligible candidates for this role from any location in Australia and New Zealand providing you have eligible working rights.

Your future team

Our Platform Engineering Organisation is leading some of Atlassian's most exciting and largest transformations that are critical in unleashing the potential of all teams for our customers.

We're hiring for Senior Principal Engineers to join our Platform Engineering Organisation, which is spearheading some of Atlassian's most critical and exciting transformations. You will report to the Head of Engineering and solve complex architectural challenges on a global scale. You will bring your expertise to lead multi-year projects that align with key company objectives and directly connect technical solutions to company goals.

Inspire innovation by solving complex problems, proposing solutions, and influencing leadership to implement them, while advancing technical evolution and engineering culture across APAC and beyond through collaboration, enhanced architectures, and the adoption of new technologies.

Responsibilities

What you'll do

  • Shape the forward-looking technical direction and long-term architecture for pillars in the Platform Organisation

  • Collaborate with product, engineering, and design leaders to influence the broader department-level strategy.

  • Ensure that the technical strategy you build is aligned with the technical strategy of Atlassian products and platforms

  • Partner with principal engineers and architects from other teams and guide exploration of large-scale projects spanning multiple teams in Enterprise

  • Propel technical evolution while enhancing the engineering culture across APAC and beyond, promoting cross-team collaboration and delivering measurable results.

  • Be influential within your team and work with peers and senior leaders to define and revise the standards for operational excellence across Atlassian.

  • Mentor, hire and develop other engineers.

Qualifications

Your background

  • Minimum of 15 years of hands-on experience in software/technology roles, in Enterprise Products & Solutions in the cloud.

  • Proficiency with cloud-native technologies, ideally AWS.

  • At least 6 years of experience architecting and implementing multiple features of a SaaS product at a high scale, performance and reliability of at least 4 nines.

  • Experience with building and delivering multi-tenant cloud-native SaaS software.

  • Strong understanding of distributed systems, modern cloud-native architectures, and distributed data management.

  • Experience communicating updates and resolutions to senior and executive level stakeholders and other partners to drive the mission forward.

  • Passion for maintaining high-quality standards in software development.

  • Success in articulating and pitching a technical vision to stakeholders.

  • Ability to balance short- and long-term objectives, focusing on both technical and business outcomes.

#LI-Remote

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.

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



  • Sydney, Australia Sustain Recruit Full time

    $180K - $230K + Super Hybrid / WFH - 1 Day a week / fortnight in Sydney office  ESOP Package Become part of the founding team Company Overview: AI startup backed by top-tier venture capital. Role Overview: As the Senior / Principal Software Engineer you will be playing a pivot role in the founding team. You will be growing IP and...


  • Sydney, Australia Atlassian Full time

    OverviewWorking at AtlassianAtlassian can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity. Assuming you have eligible working rights and a sufficient time zone overlap with your team, you can choose to work remotely or from an office (unless it's necessary for your role to be performed in the office). Interviews and onboarding are conducted...


  • Sydney, Australia Talenza Full time

    Lead Software Developer - Node | Angular | AWS Permanent Location – Sydney - CBD – 3 Days PW in Office | 2 Days PW from Home Salary – $180 - $200k + bonus My client is a scale-up med-tech organisation that has been making waves. They have a significant amount of feature development to conduct as their customer base continues to grow....


  • Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Firesoft People Full time

    We are seeking a highly skilled Principal .NET Software Engineer to join our team at Firesoft People.About the RoleThis is a fantastic opportunity for experienced .NET developers to drive the development of bespoke systems and improve web-based content management system functionality. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background, excellent...


  • Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Commonwealth Bank of Australia Full time

    We're looking for a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to join our ML Ops Capabilities team at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia.As a Principal Software Engineering Specialist, you'll lead our testing automation and quality engineering strategy by evaluating our automation capabilities, collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify...


  • Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Yunex Traffic Full time

    Job Overview:We are seeking a highly skilled Principal Software and Hardware Engineer to join our team at Yunex Traffic. This role will involve designing, testing, and implementing software and hardware for various applications and electronic devices.Key Responsibilities:Develop project plans and scoping documents for new projects.Design test documentation...


  • Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Atlassian Full time

    OverviewWe are seeking a highly skilled Senior Principal Software Engineer to join our Jira Experience XP team.This role will report into the Head of Engineering in Jira and focus on shaping the technical strategy for Jira Platform, aligning with the enterprise technical vision and requirements around scale and performance.The ideal candidate will have 10+...


  • Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Hudson Full time

    About the RoleWe are seeking a highly skilled Principal Mobile Software Engineer with expertise in Android to join our team at Hudson.As a key member of our development team, you will be responsible for designing, building, and supporting native mobile products. Your passion for delivering high-quality software applications on schedule and within agreed...


  • Sydney, Australia Atlassian Full time

    Overview: **Your future team** We're hiring a Principal Technical Program Manager, reporting to our Group Senior Technical Program Manager for Engineering Systems. As Principal Technical Program Manager, you will help shape our Technical Program Management organisation as a senior individual contributor. The goal is to steer our Engineering organisation...

  • Sr. Software Engineer

    7 months ago


    Sydney, Australia Dew Software Full time

    Dew Software, a leading player in the digital transformation space, is seeking a highly skilled Sr. Software Engineer to join our team. As a Fortune 500 collaborator, we take pride in our commitment to quality and excellence. We operate from 14 development centers in 9 countries, giving our team members access to diverse talent and expertise from around the...


  • Sydney, Australia Anduril Full time

    Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s...


  • Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Commonwealth Bank of Australia Full time

    At Commonwealth Bank of Australia, we're shaping the future of banking and technology.We're offering a competitive salary package, estimated to be around $180,000 - $220,000 per annum, depending on experience and qualifications.Job DescriptionWe're seeking an exceptional Principal Backend Software Engineering Lead to join our team. As a key member of our...


  • Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Atlassian Full time

    About the RoleWe are seeking an experienced Principal Backend Software Engineer to join our Sydney engineering teams. As a Senior Software Engineering Lead, you will play a key role in shaping the future of Atlassian's software products.ResponsibilitiesTackle complex problems and lead technical design to launchDetermine plans-of-attack on large...


  • Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Firesoft People Full time

    Firesoft People is seeking a highly skilled Principal Software Engineer to lead the development of our bespoke .NET solutions. We offer a competitive salary range of $120,000 - $180,000 per year, commensurate with experience.Job DescriptionWe are looking for an exceptional Senior .NET Developer to join our team and drive the scope and development of our...


  • Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Atlassian Full time

    Atlassian is a leading software company that empowers teams to achieve their goals. We are currently seeking a highly skilled Principal Backend Software Engineer to join our Sydney engineering team.We offer a competitive salary of approximately $**150,000 - 200,000 per annum**, depending on experience and location. Our perks and benefits include health...


  • Sydney, Australia Microsoft Full time

    **Azure Resource Graph**’s (ARG part of ARM/Azure Control plane) mission is to Reliably organize the planet-scale cloud inventory and making it accessible to every Azure customer through scalable, and performant tools. ARG is the Inventory of cloud resources, dependencies, services, apps & Azure metadata and is a core service enabling almost all Azure...


  • Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Westpac Institutional Banking Full time

    We are seeking a skilled Senior Software Engineer to join our Westpac Institutional Banking team.About the RoleThis is an exciting opportunity to work on a highly strategic Cash Management Platform project, leveraging technologies such as React.js, TypeScript, Redux, and Node.js (REST APIs). As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a key role in...


  • Sydney, Australia Anduril Full time

    Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s...


  • Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Macquarie Full time

    About the RoleMacquarie is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead and mentor multiple engineering teams, guiding them through application design and architecture, and contributing to business requirements. The successful candidate will have a strong understanding of software development best practices and proven experience in a leadership capacity.The role...

  • Principal Engineer

    1 month ago


    Sydney, Australia Qantas Full time

    Job DescriptionThe Principal Engineer is a technical leadership role, responsible for driving technical outcomes of the team and advising and supporting best across the business within flight operations, airline and mobile technologies.  The Principal Software Engineer will have mastered the fundamentals of software development, from problem exploration...