Principal Software Engineer - Kubernetes

As a Principal Engineer in the Core Engineering team, you will help envision, build and evolve a cutting-edge platform for deploying and running all Atlassian products . You will use your deep expertise in Cloud, Kubernetes and container technologies and systems to solve some of our most complex problems including infrastructure, data and architectural challenges.

As a technical leader, you will be expected to lead other engineers to define our strategic technical direction, and to execute involved projects from design to launch. You will widely collaborate with other product teams and leaders globally to influence, set expectations, gather inputs and communicate results. Your role is pivotal in identifying and driving step-change initiatives, ensuring best of class of compute infrastructure availability for developers across all of our products for all our customers.

• 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.

• Identify opportunities for innovation and improvement in platform services and developer tools.

• Own engineering and operational excellence for the health of our systems and processes. Proactively drive opportunities for continuous improvements and own key operational metrics.

• Continually drive developer productivity initiatives to ensure that we unleash the potential of our own team.

• Help hire and mentor engineers to build an open, innovative and operationally responsible culture.

• Strong technical expertise and 10+ years experience in designing/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.

• Focus on business outcomes and the 80/20 rule; very high bar for output quality, but recognise the business benefit of 'ship small, ship fast and iterate’ vs ‘building for perfection’

• 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 organisation; ability to balance multiple projects under pressure

• 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.