[Hiring] Principal Engineer, Search Platform @Atlassian

Role Description

As a Principal Engineer in Search Platform, you will serve as a technical leader driving the core indexing engines and enterprise-grade trust capabilities that power Atlassian Search and Rovo. You will lead the technical vision, architecture, and delivery for planetary-scale data ingestion and indexing platforms while ensuring Search meets strict enterprise commitments across multi-cloud (GCP/AWS), isolated cloud, compliance, and encryption.

• Lead Enterprise Trust & Compliance:
  • Own technical strategy and delivery for enterprise requirements - multi-cloud (GCP/AWS), Isolated Cloud, FedRAMP, BYOK encryption, and data residency - making Search a platform enterprises can trust.
  • Proactively simplifying architecture and removing complexity.
• Shape the Indexing Platform for AI-era Workloads:
  • Evolve high-throughput, low-latency distributed indexing pipelines to meet the retrieval demands of agentic and AI use cases - freshness, context relevance, and scale across billions of events.
• Connect Across Teams and Systems:
  • Work fluidly across ML, Data, Cloud Infrastructure, and product teams - aligning technical direction, unblocking dependencies, and building shared platform capabilities that multiply the impact of teams beyond your own.
  • Help improve support for building and operating systems that deliver true Enterprise Trust through Atlassian-wide platforms, while actively simplifying the architecture and eliminating accumulated complexity.
• Drive System Efficiency at Scale:
  • Improve ingestion throughput, data freshness, and reliability while optimizing for unit economics through smarter sharding, disaggregated storage, and compute efficiency.
• Capitalize on Agentic Development Advances:
  • Stay ahead of the curve on retrieval architectures, vector/hybrid indexing, and agentic memory patterns - bringing external advances in to accelerate Atlassian's platform and product roadmap.

Qualifications

• At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs.
• We follow consistent hiring practices and account for each candidate's skills, knowledge, and experience when setting base pay within the range.
• This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.

Requirements

• Enterprise Platform Experience:
  • Demonstrated experience delivering enterprise-grade requirements - tenant isolation, multi-cloud deployments, compliance frameworks (FedRAMP, BYOK, data residency), and zero-downtime migrations at scale.
• Distributed Systems Depth:
  • Proven experience designing and operating large-scale distributed data pipelines, search/indexing systems, or streaming platforms (e.g., Kafka, Flink, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, object-store-backed indexing, vector search).
• Cross-functional Influence:
  • Experience driving alignment and delivery across multiple teams and systems - someone who is just as effective collaborating and influencing as they are executing independently.
• Speed with Judgment:
  • A track record of making fast, pragmatic trade-offs that deliver near-term value without accumulating long-term technical debt.
• Agentic & AI-Aware Engineering:
  • Familiarity with systems that support AI agents and pragmatic approaches to integrate safe agentic engineering practices for building robust Enterprise grade systems.

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 go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits .