Principal Engineer - Security Development Team

Working at Atlassian
Atlassian can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity. Assuming you have eligible working rights and a sufficient time zone overlap with your team, you can choose to work remotely or return to an office as they reopen (unless it’s necessary for your role to be performed in the office). Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.
Atlassian is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join our Security Development teamThis team builds and operates mature software systems to improve Atlassian's security posture. As a Principal Engineer, you'll be part of a team responsible for creating, implementing, monitoring, scaling, and optimizing the code that powers platform services.You'll develop the technical roadmap for 3-5 engineering teams within your immediate group, whilst overseeing projects across multiple teams throughout the organisation. You'll report to the Senior Manager, Security Development. If you are a strong principal developer interested in developing your info security expertise, this role is a rare opportunity to do just that!Primary ResponsibilitiesBreakdown complex problems into elegant solutions.Influence the technical direction of multiple teams.Influence architecture using knowledge of system performance and scalability.Grow other developers. Be a mentor and lead by example to help build an awesome team.You still code and your code sets an example for others to follow.

On your first day: we'll expect you to have:

• A passion for delivering high-quality, operationally mature code on-time
• Responsibility for large-scale projects
• Experience mentoring and developing more junior developers
• Experience building scalable, reliable and highly available systems
• Fluency in any modern programming language
• Don't worry if you aren't a security pro

It's awesome if you:

• Build large-scale, high load distributed systems on AWS or other cloud infrastructure with a focus on operational maturity
• Understand processing large datasets and stream processors
• Use data to evaluate new technologies and technical directions
• Have familiarity with security systems (huge bonus but not a requirement)

Our perks & benefits
To support you at work and play, our perks and benefits include ample time off, an annual education budget, paid volunteer days, and so much more.
About Atlassian
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