The Senior Principal Software Engineer will develop scalable backend applications, lead technical evolution in JQL Search, mentor teammates, and ensure performance monitoring.
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 position. Our office is in Bengaluru, but we offer flexibility for eligible candidates to work remotely across India. Whatever your preference - working from home, an office, or in between - you can choose the place that's best for your work and your lifestyle.
Your future team
To become a 100 year company, we need a world-class engineering organisation made up of empowered teams who have the capabilities to do the best work of their careers. JQL Search is a core capability of Jira and owned by Jira Platform Search. It powers key Jira experiences like Jira Boards and Backlogs or Jira Service Management Queues. The capability is to enable the experiences to perform at scale and meet high standards Atlassian customers expect. Being a core capability of core Atlassian products we are looking for people who are not afraid of engineering challenges and working in multi team, high collaborative environments.
What you'll do
Your background
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/perksandbenefits to 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 .
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 position. Our office is in Bengaluru, but we offer flexibility for eligible candidates to work remotely across India. Whatever your preference - working from home, an office, or in between - you can choose the place that's best for your work and your lifestyle.
Your future team
To become a 100 year company, we need a world-class engineering organisation made up of empowered teams who have the capabilities to do the best work of their careers. JQL Search is a core capability of Jira and owned by Jira Platform Search. It powers key Jira experiences like Jira Boards and Backlogs or Jira Service Management Queues. The capability is to enable the experiences to perform at scale and meet high standards Atlassian customers expect. Being a core capability of core Atlassian products we are looking for people who are not afraid of engineering challenges and working in multi team, high collaborative environments.
What you'll do
- Build and ship JQL Search features and capabilities daily in highly scalable, cross-geo distributed environment
- Be responsible technical evolution for products and platforms in JQL Search and partially in Jira Platform
- Be part of an amazing open and collaborative work environment with other experienced engineers, architects, product managers, and designers, working closely with JQL Search and collaborating with other Jira Platform or Jira product teams
- Mentor and level up the skills of your teammates by sharing your expertise in formal and informal knowledge sharing sessions
- Ensure full visibility, error reporting, and monitoring of high performing backend services
- Foster a culture of efficient delivery
Your background
- 15+ years of experience building and developing backend applications - Bachelor's or Master's degree with a preference for Computer Science degree
- Experience crafting and implementing highly scalable and performant micro-services
- Proficiency in any modern object-oriented programming language (e.g., Java, Kotlin, etc.)
- Real passion for collaboration and strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Familiarity with cloud architecture patterns and an engineering discipline to produce software with quality
- Experience in Elastisearch, being able to deep dive into performance at scale problems, is a bonus
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/perksandbenefits to 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 .
Top Skills
Cloud Architecture
Elasticsearch
Java
Kotlin
Micro-Services
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Atlassian believes the future of work is distributed and offers our people the flexibility to help them do what’s important to them. And with few exceptions, we hire people anywhere we have a legal entity as long as they have eligible work rights and sufficient team time zone overlap.
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