Atlassian
Senior Principal Software Engineer
$202K–$318K
Seattle, United States +1 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Location
- Seattle, United States
Remote, Remote - Experience
- Significant experience; no number of years specified.
About the job
Provides organization-wide technical leadership for Atlassian’s Trusted Data Platform and Data Exchange Platform, shaping multi-cloud data infrastructure, streaming, compute, and operational intelligence architecture.
What you'll do
- Set technical direction and lead cross-organizational platform initiatives, from strategy through implementation and production operation.
- Guide multi-cloud compute, streaming, and data-movement architecture, including reusable platform capabilities and enterprise requirements.
- Establish reliability and production standards, lead complex incident response, and mentor senior engineers.
What they ask for
- Significant experience as a senior technical leader for large-scale distributed systems, data platforms, streaming infrastructure, cloud platforms, or comparable business-critical systems.
- Demonstrated success setting technical direction and delivering multi-team or multi-organization platform initiatives; deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, reliability engineering, and production operations.
- Experience with large-scale streaming, messaging, data-processing, storage, or analytical systems, and Kubernetes or comparable compute platforms.
- Experience with multi-cloud or multi-region systems and enterprise capabilities such as data residency, encryption, compliance, disaster recovery, tenant isolation, or regulated-cloud support.
Nice to have
- Kafka or comparable event-streaming technologies, stream-processing systems such as Flink, distributed databases (TiDB is a plus), analytical data platforms, data lakehouse technologies, multi-cloud migrations, or internal developer platforms.
Pay
USD $243,900 - $318,425 base salary (Zone A); USD $219,510 - $286,583 base salary (Zone B); USD $202,437 - $264,293 base salary (Zone C)
Tools
Kubernetes, Kafka, Flink, TiDB
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