Senior Principal Engineer

Engineering | San Francisco, United States | Remote, Remote | Full-Time

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.

Your future team: Rovo Search Experience and Data (Central AI)

The Rovo Search Experience and Data team in Central AI is responsible for powering all of Rovo Search as well as search across all Atlassian products. Our mission is to make all our customers' data across Atlassian and third-party applications searchable securely and reliably through an insanely fast, globally scalable, enterprise grade search infrastructure and to build the best AI search experience across all of an enterprise’s data.

In addition to unlocking enterprise knowledge through natural language search, much of Rovo AI also relies on search as a core capability for secure, flexible and quick access to relevant information which is instantly kept up-to-date. As the world of AI continues to move incredibly fast, so do we with our ‘ShipIt’ philosophy.

Your role

As a Senior Principal Software Engineer in the Search Platform team, you will help envision, build and evolve a cutting-edge platform for storing, indexing and searching massive volumes of unstructured data . You will use your deep expertise in search technologies and systems to solve some of our most complex problems including infrastructure, data and architectural challenges.

As a senior technical leader, you will be expected to lead other engineers to define our strategic technical direction, and to execute involved projects from design to launch. You will widely collaborate with other teams and leaders globally to influence, set expectations, gather inputs and communicate results. Your role is pivotal in identifying and driving step-change initiatives, ensuring Search and AI's transformative potential is realized across our offerings for all our customers.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with partner teams and internal customers to help define technical direction and OKRs for the Search Platform team.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration and deliver a world-class end-to-end search experience.

• 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 team.

• Help hire and mentor engineers to build an open, innovative and operationally responsible culture.

On your first day, we’ll expect you to have

• Strong technical expertise and 12+ years experience in designing/building enterprise grade solutions using microservices. Fluency in at least one modern object-oriented programming language (preferably Java)

• Deep knowledge and experience building large-scale, highly available distributed systems and search technologies (e.g. Lucene, Solr, OpenSearch, Vector dbs)

• Experience building and operating large scale distributed systems using cloud technologies from AWS/Azure/GCP

• Focus on business outcomes and the 80/20 rule; very high bar for output quality, but recognize the business benefit of 'ship small, ship fast and iterate’ vs ‘building for perfection’

• Passion for engineering rigor and operational excellence (design principles and patterns, unit testing, best practices for security and privacy, CI/CD etc). You will be a role model for operational responsibility and data-driven engineering rigor.

• Excellent collaboration, communication and leadership skills. Ability to get engineers to follow their lead as well as mentor/coach

• High level of energy and a desire to innovate in a large, fast-paced organization; ability to balance multiple projects under pressure

If you’ve got these skills, even better

• Experience with search relevance models and ML platforms

• Significant experience in cell based architecture

• Data analysis using Spark/Databricks

Compensation

At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. To support this goal, the baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range, but in turn we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidate's skills, expertise, or experience. In the United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:

Zone A: $239,000 - $318,600

Zone B: $215,100 - $286,700

Zone C: $198,300 - $264,400

This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.

Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.

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.