Senior Principal Software Engineer - Jira Search

About the role

Jira Platform aims to become the trusted, agent-native system of record and control plane for human and agent teamwork at enterprise scale. The Jira Search team, with more than 50 engineers across India and Europe, is building the foundation for federated search across Jira portfolios and eventually a shared search capability across Atlassian products. This role owns the technical evolution and long-term architecture of the team, leading the largest architectural initiatives and raising standards for reliability, performance, observability, security and operational excellence.

Key responsibilities

• Own the technical evolution and long-term architecture of the team, 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.
• Ability to drive a complex step-change initiative across a distributed cross-org setup, with influence and buy-in from senior leadership.

Required skills

• SQL/No-SQL datastores, preferably PostgreSQL and OpenSearch.
• Data streaming (Kafka/Flink) and CDC eventing.