Principal Software Engineer - Encryption

About the role

Atlassian is hiring a Principal Software Engineer focused on encryption, a full-time engineering position. The company describes itself as distributed-first, with work done from home, in an office or a mix, and interviews and onboarding handled virtually.

Key responsibilities

• Tackle the largest and most complex problems on the team, from technical design to launch, and deliver solutions used by other teams and products
• Determine plans of attack on large projects and routinely solve complex architecture challenges, applying architectural standards to new projects
• Lead code reviews and documentation, fix complex bugs on high-risk problems, and set the standard for thorough code reviews
• Partner across engineering teams on company-wide initiatives spanning multiple projects
• Mentor more junior members of the team

Required profile

• 12+ years of hands-on software or technology leadership roles with end-to-end responsibility through the software development lifecycle
• Bachelor's or Master's degree, preferably Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Hands-on experience building encryption, key management or other security-critical systems at scale
• Understanding of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS and of large-scale distributed systems
• Ability to evaluate trade-offs between security, correctness, robustness, performance, space and time
• Experience mentoring engineers and influencing decision makers, with customer impact in mind

Required skills

• Expertise in one or more prominent languages such as Java, Python, Kotlin, Go or Scala, plus at least one additional language
• Strong cloud security expertise with hands-on experience on public cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP or Azure
• CI/CD practice