Principal Software Engineer

About Atlassian India
Atlassian's mission "to unleash the potential of every team" is the guiding light behind what we do. We have developed well-known products such as Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket, that fit into the fabric of teamwork across different types of teams and the processes to help every team succeed. Think NASA launching the Rover on Mars or Cochlear gifting those born deaf with the ability to hear , your work directly impacts the products they use to promote humanity.
Our office is in Bengaluru, but we offer flexibility for eligible candidates to work remotely across India. Whatever your preference - working from home, an office, or in between - you can choose the place that's best for your work and your lifestyle. We call this TEAM anywhere .
Your future team: Search Platform
The Search Platform team is responsible for powering all of Rovo Search as well as search across all Atlassian products. Our mission is to make all our customers' data across Atlassian and third-party applications searchable securely and reliably through an insanely fast, globally scalable, enterprise grade search infrastructure.
In addition to unlocking enterprise knowledge through natural language search, much of Rovo AI also relies on search as a core capability for secure, flexible and quick access to relevant information which is instantly kept up-to-date. As the world of AI continues to move incredibly fast, so do we with our ' ShipIt ' philosophy.
In this role, you'll get the chance to:

• Handle complex problems in the team from technical design to launch
• Determine plans-of-attack on large projects
• Solve complex architecture challenges and apply architectural standards and start using them on new projects
• Lead code reviews & documentation and take on complex bug fixes, especially on high-risk problems
• Set the standard for meaningful code reviews
• Partner across engineering teams to take on company-wide programmes in multiple projects
• Transfer your depth of knowledge from your current language to excel as a Software Engineer
• Mentor junior members of the team.

Your background:

• 10+ years experience in multiple hands-on software/technology leadership roles, with end-to-end responsibility through the software development lifecycle
• Experience with Lucene, Solr, or other Search technologies.
• Bachelor's degree with a preference for Computer Science degree
• Expertise with one or more prominent languages such as Java, Python, Kotlin, Go, or TypeScript is required.
• Understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS industry with hands-on experience with public cloud offerings (e.g., AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Experience in Java, Spring, REST, and NoSQL databases
• Experience building event-driven based on SQS, SNS, Kafka or equivalent technologies
• Knowledge to evaluate trade-offs between correctness, robustness, performance, space and time
• Practice in mentoring other engineers and influencing decision makers throughout the organisation
• Consider the customer impact when making technical decisions

If you've got these skills, even better

• Experience in ElasticSearch, OpenSearch or other search engine technologies
• Experience in Developer Experience or Developer Productivity
• Proficiency in Java
• Experience in at least one additional language
• Experience in CI (Continuous Integration) and CD (Continuous Deployment)
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