Principal Backend Engineer

What you'll do

• Everyday here would be a dribble between balancing short-term priorities with long-term platform capabilities and the team has an army of PEs, Senior PE's that you'll work with. Needless to say, mentoring and growth would follow.
• You will help shape the roadmap for the team. You'll be a hands-on engineer and go-to-engineer for the team and your stakeholders.
• Your greatest responsibility will be to ensure delivery of projects with utmost quality spanning multiple teams, managing dependencies, creating win-win-win situations for all teams involved, in turn creating win for Atlassian.
• This is a unique role which requires a combination of operational and engineering excellence and execution excellence while balancing quality and speed.
• You will have a lot of autonomy and accountability and a team of engineers to support you in this journey.
• You will code as a part of your daily role to win the respect of the team while also looking at the project deliverables.
• You will report to a very experienced senior engineering manager / HoE

Your background



• 11+ years experience in multiple hands-on software/technology leadership roles, with end-to-end responsibility through the software development lifecycle
• You are an engineer with experience in delivering large (multi-geo, multi-team) and complex projects.
• You can identify dependencies and the risks that comes with it. You know when to escalate and when to lean on relations to get better outcomes.
• You can zoom in and zoom out, being hands-on in the sprint while also being able to think holistically at the project level.
• You can write RFCs/tech specs and project plans and can work with multiple teams of engineers towards implementing them, unblocking them along the way if necessary.
• You love challenges, working with almost zero guidance, taking extreme ownership and creating win-win situations with your creative solutions.
• You are comfortable with Java, Kotlin, Saas, Paas, AWS services like (DynamoDB, SQS, Kinesis) and an understanding of micro-services oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs
• Working with Kafka, Kafka Streams, event drive architecture and streaming architecture is something you have had hands-on experience in the past..
• You excel in abstracting out technical complexities and can engage with business /product partners in an easy conversation on OKRs and Indicators.
• Last but not the least, you are a team player. You understand that the team is bigger than any individual and can coach and grow other engineers in the team.