Principal Engineer, Search Platform

About the role

Overview 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.

What you'll do

• Lead the technical vision, architecture and delivery for planetary-scale data ingestion and indexing platforms while ensuring Search meets strict enterprise commitments…
• Lead Enterprise Trust & Compliance: Own technical strategy and delivery for enterprise requirements - multi-cloud (GCP/AWS), Isolated Cloud, FedRAMP, BYOK encryption
• Proactively simplifying architecture and removing Shape the Indexing Platform for AI-era Workloads: Evolve high-throughput
• Connect Across Teams and Systems: Work fluidly across ML, Data, Cloud Infrastructure, and product teams - aligning technical direction, unblocking dependencies
• Drive System Efficiency at Scale: Improve ingestion throughput, data freshness, and reliability while optimizing for unit economics through smarter sharding

What you need

• 12–22 yrs of experience
• AWS
• GCP
• Elasticsearch
• ETL
• Kafka
• Machine learning
• Any graduate

Good to have

• Roadmapping