Senior Principal Software Engineer, Jira Data Management

About the role

Atlassian India is hiring a Senior Principal Software Engineer (P70) for its Jira Data Management team, which works on data migration and management for Jira Cloud. The team of over 50 engineers, product managers and designers builds data migration pathways and data-shape management capabilities, including Site Optimizer for Jira. The role is listed as Bengaluru, India, with remote options available.

Key responsibilities

• Own the technical evolution and long-term architecture of Jira Data Management, shaping strategy for enterprise-scale data movement, governance, resiliency and data health.
• Lead the largest architectural initiatives across Jira Platform, from strategy and milestones through delivery, adoption and customer outcomes.
• Define and drive a 12-24 month roadmap for shared platform primitives, identify gaps and make clear trade-offs on priorities.
• Raise standards for reliability, performance, observability, security and operational excellence across systems handling critical enterprise data.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership through design reviews, deep investigations, incident reviews and high-risk problem solving, while mentoring Principal and senior engineers.

Required profile

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 12+ years of experience developing large-scale distributed systems.
• 4+ years of experience providing architectural oversight and technical leadership.
• Preferred: proven department-level influence on technical direction and architecture, and a track record of turning multi-year strategy into incremental delivery.

Required skills

• Preferred: extensive experience with large-scale distributed systems, data streaming platforms and event-driven architecture.
• Preferred: broad knowledge of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS, and hands-on experience with public clouds, ideally AWS and/or GCP.
• Preferred: fluency in a modern object-oriented language (Java, Go, Python, JavaScript, etc.) and architecture patterns for distributed systems.
• Preferred: experience mentoring senior engineers, leading technical reviews and improving engineering quality and productivity.