Senior Principal Software Engineer, Jira Data Management

Engineering | Bengaluru, India | Remote, Remote | Full-Time
Working at Atlassian
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About Atlassian India
Atlassian's mission "to unleash the potential of every team" is the guiding light behind what we do. We have developed well-known products such as Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket, that fit into the fabric of teamwork across different types of teams and the processes to help every team succeed. Think NASA launching the Rover on Mars or Cochlear gifting those born deaf with the ability to hear , your work directly impacts the products they use to promote humanity.
Our office is in Bengaluru, but we offer flexibility for eligible candidates to work remotely across India. Whatever your preference - working from home, an office, or in between - you can choose the place that's best for your work and your lifestyle. We call this TEAM anywhere. 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 P70 engineer in this future organization, you will help turn this vision into reality. You will shape the platform capabilities, technical strategy, and engineering practices that enable Jira to become the system of record and control plane for the next generation of human and agent teamwork. Our work is guided by three forces that will power the Jira Platform flywheel:
AI TRANSFORMATION: Make Jira the agent-native system of record and control plane for human and agent teamwork, designing systems that enable people and AI agents to work together effectively.
ENTERPRISE READINESS: Build the security, scale, resilience, and administrative capabilities required to earn the trust of the world's largest and most demanding enterprises as they move to the Cloud.
EFFICIENCY: Create a platform with sound unit economics that accelerates developer productivity, supports a growing agentic workload, and delivers world-class reliability for Jira Cloud customers.
Your future team
Jira Data Management focuses on empowering users with effective control over the transfer and management of data within Jira Cloud. For enterprise customers, the capability to move and manage large volumes of data both within and outside their cloud site is essential for leveraging Atlassian's cloud offerings. We develop and support various data migration pathways for Jira products, facilitating transitions from Data Center to Cloud, Cloud to Cloud, and External to Cloud data migrations. Additionally, we offer data-shape management capabilities that power products like Site Optimizer for Jira. Our goal is to deliver scalable, seamless, and highly predictable data management solutions for Jira Cloud customers.
The JDM team comprises over 50 engineers, along with product managers and designers, dedicated to overcoming challenges that may hinder customers from fully utilizing our cloud offerings. Each feature we release has a direct impact on Atlassian's cloud revenue.
We are actively focused on improving reliability at scale, performance, and features for diverse product use cases built on our services. Currently, we are looking for individuals who are enthusiastic about tackling challenging tasks and who excel in a fast-paced environment. Our mission is high-profile, and we expect our team members to take initiative in driving and contributing to Atlassian's overarching objectives.
Responsibilities

• Own the technical evolution and long-term architecture of Jira Data Management, 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, and high-risk problem solving while mentoring Principal and senior engineers.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 12+ years of experience developing large scale distributed systems.
• 4+ years of experience providing architectural oversight and technical leadership.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven experience at department-level: shaping technical direction across teams and influencing architecture beyond a single service.
• Track record of leading major architectural initiatives and turning multi-year strategy into incremental delivery and measurable outcomes.
• Extensive experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems, data streaming platforms and event-driven architecture
• Broad knowledge of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS and hands-on experience with public clouds (ideally AWS and/or GCP).
• Fluency in any modern object-oriented programming language (e.g., Java, Golang, Python, Javascript, go etc.) and in architecture patterns for distributed systems.
• Experience mentoring senior engineers, leading technical reviews, and improving engineering quality and productivity.
• Quick learner who excels in ambiguous environments.Our perks & benefits
  Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit