[Hiring] Principal Software Engineer - Encryption @Atlassian

Role Description

In this role, you'll get the chance to:

• Regularly tackle the largest and most complex problems on the team, from technical design to launch.
• Deliver solutions that are used by other teams and products.
• Determine plans-of-attack on large projects.
• Routinely tackle complex architecture challenges and apply architectural standards and start using them on new projects.
• Lead code reviews & documentation as well as take on complex bug fixes, especially on high-risk problems.
• Set the standard for thorough, meaningful code reviews.
• Partner across engineering teams to take on company-wide initiatives spanning multiple projects.
• Transfer your depth of knowledge from your current language to excel as a Software Engineer.
• Mentor more junior members of the team.

Qualifications

• 12+ years experience in multiple hands-on software/technology leadership roles, with end-to-end responsibility through the software development lifecycle.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree (preferably a Computer Science degree or equivalent experience).
• Expertise with one or more prominent languages such as Java, Python, Kotlin, Go, or Scala is required, plus experience in at least one additional language.
• Hands-on experience building encryption, key management, or other security-critical systems at scale.
• Strong cloud security expertise, with hands-on experience on public cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Understanding of the SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS industry and of large-scale distributed systems.
• Knowledge to evaluate trade-offs between security, correctness, robustness, performance, space, and time.
• Practice in mentoring other engineers and influencing decision makers throughout the organization.
• Considers the customer impact when making technical decisions.
• Experience in CI (Continuous Integration) and CD (Continuous Deployment).