Atlassian

Principal Software Engineer - Encryption

ID REQ-2026-2273
Category
Engineering

Overview

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.

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.

Responsibilities

In this role, you'll get the chance to:

  • Regularly tackle the largest and most complex problems on the team, from technical design to launch

  • Deliver solutions that are used by other teams and products

  • Determine plans-of-attack on large projects

  • Routinely tackle complex architecture challenges and apply architectural standards and start using them on new projects

  • Lead code reviews & documentation as well as take on complex bug fixes, especially on high-risk problems

  • Set the standard for thorough, meaningful code reviews

  • Partner across engineering teams to take on company-wide initiatives spanning multiple projects

  • Transfer your depth of knowledge from your current language to excel as a Software Engineer

  • Mentor more junior members of the team

Qualifications

Your background

  • 12+ years experience in multiple hands-on software/technology leadership roles, with end-to-end responsibility through the software development lifecycle

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree (preferably a Computer Science degree or equivalent experience)

  • Expertise with one or more prominent languages such as Java, Python, Kotlin, Go, or Scala is required, plus experience in at least one additional language

  • Hands-on experience building encryption, key management, or other security-critical systems at scale

  • Strong cloud security expertise, with hands-on experience on public cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, or Azure)

  • Understanding of the SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS industry and of large-scale distributed systems

  • Knowledge to evaluate trade-offs between security, correctness, robustness, performance, space, and time

  • Practice in mentoring other engineers and influencing decision makers throughout the organization

  • Considers the customer impact when making technical decisions

  • Experience in CI (Continuous Integration) and CD (Continuous Deployment)

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