Principal Software Engineer - Kubernetese Platform

Working at Atlassian
Atlassians can choose where they work - whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.
What's the principal engineer role? As an Engineer well into your career, we know you're an expert at what you do and have a breadth of experience across multiple backend technologies. You take pride in being someone who more junior members look up to and sharing your expertise with others... That's why we're placing a heavy emphasis on leaning on your expertise to take on a high level of responsibility while being a role model and mentor to others on the team.
In this role, you'll get the chance to:

• Collaborate with other core engineering teams and internal customers to help define technical direction and OKRs for the Compute Platform team.
• Automating and building a self-serve Kubernetes platform for consumption of all Atlassian engineers across various products.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration and deliver a seamless compute platform experience.
• Evaluate and implement new cloud native technologies and frameworks to enhance platform capabilities, designed with security, performance, testability and scalability in mind.
• Contribute to and execute a strategic vision for the compute platform that aligns with the company's goals and objectives.
• Routinely tackle complex architecture challenges and apply architectural standards and start using them on new projects.
• Lead code reviews and documentation, and address complex bug fixes, especially for high-risk issues. Set a standard for comprehensive and effective code reviews.
• Own engineering and operational excellence for the health of our systems and processes.
• Help hire and mentor engineers to build an open, innovative and operationally responsible culture.

On your first day, we'll expect you to have

• Strong technical expertise and 10+ years experience in designing/developing/building enterprise grade public cloud or platform as a service solutions.
• Deep understanding of cloud computing, container orchestration tools like Kubernetes/Mesos/Swarm, microservices architecture, and container orchestration technologies.
• Experience building and operating large scale distributed systems using cloud technologies from AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Expert-level experience with one or more prominent languages such as Golang, Java, Python, C# or C/C++ is crucial.
• Passion for engineering rigor and operational excellence (design principles and patterns, unit testing, best practices for security and privacy, CI/CD etc). You will be a role model for operational responsibility and data-driven engineering rigor.
• Excellent collaboration, communication and leadership skills. Ability to get engineers to follow their lead as well as mentor/coach
• High level of energy and a desire to innovate in a large, fast-paced organization; ability to balance multiple projects under pressure

If you've got these skills, even better

• Hands-on experience with managing Kubernetes clusters, preferably building Kubernetes Operators, Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) and Controllers.
• Significant experience in Multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure.
• Experience with load balancing, scaling strategies, and performance and cost optimization in a cloud environment.

Our perks & benefits
Atlassian offers a variety of perks and benefits to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health coverage, paid volunteer days, wellness resources, and so much more. Visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits to learn more.
About Atlassian
At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Our software products help teams all over the planet and our solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through our tools makes what may be impossible alone, possible together.
We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.
To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh .