Whats the Senior Principal Engineer role? As an engineer well into your career, we know youre 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... Thats why were placing a heavy emphasis on leaning on your expertise to take on a high level of responsibility while being a role model and mentor to others on the team.<ul><li>Collaborate with partner teams and internal customers to help define technical direction and OKRs for the Central AI organization.</li><li>Regularly tackle the largest and most complex problems on the team, from technical design to implementation and launch</li><li>Partner across engineering teams to take on company-wide initiatives spanning multiple projects</li><li>Routinely tackle complex architecture challenges and apply architectural standards and start using them on new projects</li><li>Work across senior engineering and product leaders to build strategy and design solutions to earn customers trust and business</li><li>Own key OKRs and end-to-end outcomes of critical projects in a microservices environment</li><li>Champion best practices and innovative techniques for scalability, reliability, and performance optimizations.</li><li>Own engineering and operational excellence for the health of our systems and processes. Proactively drive opportunities for continuous improvements and own key operational metrics.</li><li>Continually drive developer productivity initiatives to ensure that we unleash the potential of our own teams.</li><li>Help hire and mentor engineers to build an open, innovative and operationally responsible culture.</li></ul> <ul><li>Preferred by not required: 5+ years of hands on experience related to one of these systems: web crawler, link graph mining, web data ingress system, scheduler system.</li><li>Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.</li><li>12+ years of experience in backend software development, with a focus on distributed systems and large-scale storage solutions.</li><li>Proficiency in system design, performance optimization, and cost-efficient architecture for exabyte-scale storage.</li><li>Expertise in at least one major backend programming language (Kotlin, Java, Go, Rust, or Python).</li><li>Experience leading technical strategy and architectural decisions in large, multi-team engineering organizations.</li><li>Strong understanding of distributed systems principles, including consistency models, replication, sharding, and consensus algorithms</li><li>Experience mentoring senior engineers and driving high-impact engineering initiatives.</li></ul>CompensationAt 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 candidates 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: $239,400 - $312,550 Zone B: $216,000 - $282,000 Zone C: $198,900 - $259,675This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.Please visit <a href="http://go.atlassian.com/payzones">go.atlassian.com/payzones</a> 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.Benefits &amp; PerksAtlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit <a href="http://go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits">go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits</a>.About AtlassianAt Atlassian, were 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 everyones 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 <a href="http://go.atlassian.com/crh">go.atlassian.com/crh</a>.