Senior Principal Engineer - Jira Platform

About the role

We're looking for a Senior Principal Backend Software Engineer to join our team, passionately focused on delivering creative improvements for our engineering teams. Your Future Org “Jira Platform enables Jira to become the trusted, agent-native system of record and control plane for human and agent teamwork at enterprise scale.” As a Senior Principal Engineer in this future organization, you will help turn this vision into reality.

What you'll do

• Own the technical evolution and long-term architecture of Jira Data Management, shaping strategy for enterprise-scale data movement, governance, resiliency
• Lead the largest architectural initiatives across Jira Platform, from strategy and milestones through delivery, adoption, and customer outcomes
• Define and drive a 12–24 month roadmap for shared platform primitives, identify gaps, and make clear trade-offs on priorities
• Raise standards for reliability, performance, observability, security, and operational excellence across systems handling critical enterprise data
• Provide hands-on technical leadership via design reviews, deep investigations, incident reviews

What you need

• 12–22 yrs of experience
• JIRA
• B.Tech or B.E. or B.Sc or BCA or M.Tech or MCA or M.Sc

Good to have

• Java
• Python
• JavaScript
• AWS
• GCP