Working at Atlassian

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To help our teams work together effectively, this role is fully remote, but requires you to be located in IST TZ.

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

Your Future Org

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 EM in this 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.

Your future team

API extensibility addresses two major gaps for Jira Platform preventing future agentic and cloud growth. First, reactive gaps: customers are hitting real blockers today driven by company-wide initiatives in motion, including DC to Cloud migration, Connect to Forge migration, and rate limiting rollout. Legacy API gaps that were once tolerable have become migration-critical. Second, proactive structural gaps: Establish Governance as the foundation, Enterprise Readiness to close the immediate gaps, and Agent-first Jira as the strategic bet.

As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will bring your rich technical and leadership experience in driving a team of 2-3 scrum teams. The overall span of the team would be 12-20 and would be the front-line manager role, to start with. As a senior leader, you will work closely with multiple principal engineers, mentor and coach engineers. You will not only drive impactful business outcomes but also take part actively in driving the technical architecture. As a seasoned leader, you will bring in world-class engineering excellence and operational excellence. You'll also thrive in a challenging and growing business environment that has ambiguity, multiple global dependency footprints, and diverse stakeholders.

Experience in leading large development teams directly
Experience in developing platforms and products in a SaaS world
Strong technical experience and a passion for getting involved in the details
Familiarity with agile software development methodologies
Ability to drive technical excellence, pushing innovation, quality, and operational excellence
Strong organization and communication skills
Driving clarity from single-line requirements and providing direction in an ambiguous environment
A track record of strong execution and delivering results

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in defining strategic roadmaps for products and platforms
Experience with distributed development teams
Continuous delivery with a strong bias for action

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 .

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.

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