Principal Software Engineer – Observability

Full time @Atlassian in Information Technology (IT)
  • Sydney, Australia | Remote, Remote | Auckland, New Zealand | San Francisco, United States | Mountain View, United States or Remote View on Map
  • Post Date : June 1, 2025
  • Apply Before : June 16, 2025
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  • Job ID 25133
  • Experience  5 Years
  • Qualifications  Degree Bachelor
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Job Description

“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

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