Senior Principal Engineer - Core Data Platform

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☕ Washington – Remote

Although this job is listed in Washington, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

💵 $239k - $318.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Atlassian is a software company known for its collaboration and productivity tools designed to help teams manage projects and workflows effectively. One of its flagship products, Trello, offers a user-friendly interface for organizing tasks, tracking progress, and streamlining communication across various teams. With features such as automation, integration with popular apps, and customizable boards, Atlassian aims to enhance team collaboration and increase productivity across diverse sectors.

b2b enterprise software • bug tracker • issue tracker • enterprise wiki • corporate wiki

10,000+ employees

⚡ Productivity

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

💰 $3.2G Secondary Market on 2014-04

📋 Description

• As an engineer well into your career, we know you're an expert at what you do and have a breadth of experience across multiple backend technologies. • You take pride in working across departments to deliver transformational solutions that scale an entire company. • You enjoy working with other Principals and more junior members look up to and sharing your expertise with others. • Collaborate with partner teams and internal customers to help define technical direction and OKRs for the Core Data platform organization. • Regularly tackle the largest and most complex problems on the team, from technical design to implementation and launch. • Partner across engineering teams to take on company-wide initiatives spanning multiple projects. • Routinely tackle complex architecture challenges and apply architectural standards and start using them on new projects. • Work across senior engineering and product leaders to build strategy and design solutions to earn customers trust and business. • Own key OKRs and end-to-end outcomes of critical projects in a microservices environment. • Champion best practices and innovative techniques for scalability, reliability, and performance optimizations. • 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 teams. • Help hire and mentor engineers to build an open, innovative and operationally responsible culture.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field. • 12+ years of experience in backend software development, with a focus on distributed systems and large-scale storage solutions. • 8+ years of experience designing and managing highly available, large-scale storage architectures in cloud environments. • 5+ years of hands-on experience working with AWS storage services (S3, EBS, EFS, FSx, Glacier, DynamoDB). • Proficiency in system design, performance optimization, and cost-efficient architecture for exabyte-scale storage. • Expertise in at least one major backend programming language (Kotlin, Java, Go, Rust, or Python). • Experience leading technical strategy and architectural decisions in large, multi-team engineering organizations. • Strong understanding of distributed systems principles, including consistency models, replication, sharding, and consensus algorithms (Raft, Paxos). • Deep knowledge of security best practices, including encryption, access control (IAM), and compliance standards (SOC2, GDPR, HIPAA). • Experience mentoring senior engineers and driving high-impact engineering initiatives.

🏖️ Benefits

• health coverage • paid volunteer days • wellness resources