Principal Software Engineer, Enterprise Cloud
Atlassian
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Role As a Principal Engineer, you are expected to play a tech lead role in the Enterprise Cloud team. You'll work with other architects, senior architects across several teams including feature teams, underlying platform teams and product teams like jira, confluence etc. influencing them without authority to prioritise the team's asks. You'll be a hands-on engineer and go-to-engineer for the team and your partners. You will report to the Head of Engineering or a Senior Engineering Manager and will work across the enterprise cloud organisation which serves the crucial functions for the whole company. This is a unique role which requires a combination of operational and engineering excellence, and execution excellence while balancing quality and speed. You will have a lot of autonomy and accountability and a team of engineers to support you in this journey. You will code as a part of your daily role to win the respect of the team while also looking at the project deliverables. On their first day, we'll expect: 11+ years experience in multiple hands-on software/technology leadership roles, with end-to-end responsibility through the software development lifecycle You are an engineer with experience delivering large (multi-geo, multi-team) and complex projects. You can zoom in and zoom out, being hands-on in the sprint while also being able to think holistically at the project level. You can write RFCs/tech specs and project plans and can work with multiple teams of engineers towards implementing them, unblocking them along the way if necessary. You are comfortable working with almost zero guidance, taking extreme ownership and creating win-win situations with your creative solutions. You are comfortable working with backend languages like Java, Kotlin and technologies like AWS (DynamoDB, SQS, Kinesis) and understand micro-services oriented architecture You are a team player who understands that the team is bigger than you and can coach and grow other engineers in the team.