Distinguished Engineer - Atlassian Corporate Engineering

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.
In this role as a Distinguished Engineer for Atlassian's Corporate Engineering division, you will lead highly technical and strategic engineering initiatives on mission-critical platforms across Atlassian, enabling every Atlassian to their best work and build on top of our core Platform and improve that and our status as Atlassian's best customer running Atlassian on Atlassian.
Your role will be tasked with solving the most complex, challenging technical problems across Atlassian and our extension of our own products to meet our demanding needs.
You will play an influential role in partnership with Atlassian's engineering leadership group and other cross-divisional Heads of Engineering (e.g. Product / Core / Infrastructure), Heads of Product and Design for Platform, PgM and executive leadership (CTO / President / CISO etc).
Some of your role responsibilities include:

• Own and lead the approach to the largest and most complex technical problems from technical design to launch to day-to-day operation.
• Design solutions that can be modeled and used by our customers in production.
• Solve complex architectural challenges and define architectural standards.
• Lead code reviews and documentation and take on complex bug fixes, especially on high-risk problems.
• Partner across engineering teams to take on company-wide programs.
• Mentor engineering leaders and teams across the Corporate Engineering team

On your first day, we'll expect you to have:

• Deep technical expertise with 15+ years of experience designing/building enterprise-grade platforms and systems, including any or all of Cloud, Data, Ecosystem, Experiences or Ecosystem platform building experiences
• Fluency in the current landscape of cloud platform architecture and ideally AWS stack.
• Passion for software engineering excellence - design principles and patterns, unit testing, performance engineering, best practices for security and privacy.
• Passion and aptitude for recognizing, raising, and reconciling gaps and redundant efforts across organizations
• Excellent collaboration, communication and leadership skills. Ability to get engineers to follow their lead as well as mentor/coach
• High level of energy and a desire to thrive in a large, fast-paced organization; ability to balance multiple projects under pressure

• Also nice to have: Experience in AI, ML platform technology

Compensation
At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. To support this goal, the baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range, but in turn we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidate's skills, expertise, or experience. In the United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:
Zone A: $327,200 - $400,000
Zone B: $327,200 - $400,000
Zone C: $327,200 - $400,000
This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.
Our perks & benefits
Atlassian offers a variety of perks and benefits to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health coverage, paid volunteer days, wellness resources, and so much more. Visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits to learn more.
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.
To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh .