Senior Principal Software Engineer JIRA Search

About the role

Overview Jira Platform Vision Jira Platform will enable Jira to become the trusted, agent-native system of record and control plane for human and agent teamwork at enterprise scale. Your future team Jira Scalable Issue Search (JSIS) is a foundational investment in Jira platform, moving structured searches from a database-backed engine to OpenSearch.

What you'll do

• Own the technical evolution and long-term architecture of the team, shaping strategy for enterprise-scale data movement, governance, resiliency, and data health
• 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
• Elasticsearch
• B.Tech or B.E. or B.Sc or BCA or M.Tech or MCA or M.Sc

Good to have

• SQL
• PostgreSQL
• Kafka