Senior Principal Engineer - Jira Platform

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.

We're looking for a Senior Principal Backend Software Engineer to join our team, passionately focused on delivering creative improvements for our engineering teams.

“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 Senior Principal 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.

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.