Principal Software Engineer - Observability

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.
With a sufficient timezone overlap with the team, we're able to hire eligible candidates for this role from any location in Australia or New Zealand.
Your future team
We are looking for a Principal Engineer to join our App Observability team. Your daily work will help our fellow engineers to work more productively, deliver effortlessly, and the decisions you make will impact our overall products quality.
Our team's mission is to help teams build fast experiences and make sure they stay fast. We build tools for measuring, monitoring and catching regressions in performance.
Your job will be to help leading the team to tackle big problems, and deliver high quality libraries and tools that power all of our products. You will be joining an experienced team of problem solvers, who have an eye for detail, and desire to push industry standards.
As a Principal Engineer in the team, you will focus on providing technical direction, thought leadership and Influencing strategy on improving Atlassian reliability and performance posture through advanced tooling, establishing best practices and standards, proposing and reviewing technical solution and architecture, ensuring we are building cost efficient solutions and being able to jump in the details and lead initiatives to completion.
Your background

• Build high-performing client code that is fast, testable, scalable, and high quality
• Collaborate closely with other engineers, designers and managers to understand user pain points and iterate on great solutions
• Lead code reviews and documentation, and take on complex bug fixes
• Solid experience in:
  
  • Full-stack solutions, going from Javascript in the Frontend to the backend solutions (e.g. Nodejs, Go, Java), including databases (e.g. PostgreSQL) & caching solutions (e.g. Redis).
  • Building, running, and monitoring large scale distributed systems on AWS, with a focus on capacity management and troubleshooting platforms at scale
• Experience with technically leading large scale projects from design to delivery in a collaborative manner. This involves coaching and mentoring more junior engineers and setting them up for success.
• Keen interest in open source and learning new technologies
• Understanding of how to build performant, decoupled, testable, maintainable code
• Enjoyment of sharing knowledge with teammates, and working collaboratively when you need help

Even better if you have

• Experience working on platform teams
• Solid understanding of JavaScript (language and ecosystem), and great experience with building frontend applications using React
• Experience optimising the performance of applications or working with observability solutions at scale
• Proficiency with Observability concepts e.g Tracing, SLOs, Metrics, etc and projects like OpenTelemetry.
• Exposure to data processing and/or analysis - our systems produce and processes billions of data points every day

Benefits & Perks
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 .
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 .