Principal Software Engineer - Search and Data

Working at Atlassian

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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.

At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. We follow consistent hiring practices and account for each candidate's skills, knowledge, and experience when setting base pay within the range.

This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.

Your background:

• 10+ years experience in multiple hands-on software/technology leadership roles, with end-to-end responsibility through the software development lifecycle
• Bachelor's degree with a preference for Computer Science degree
• Experience with Lucene, Solr, or other Search technologies.
• Deep understanding of Kafka and Kubernetes internals
• Worked on improving efficiency of large distributed stream processing pipelines.
• Expertise with Java and Java based stream processing platforms.
• Ability to identify and fix data processing inefficiencies using application performance monitoring tools of Java.
• Understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS industry with hands-on experience with public cloud offerings of AWS.
• Experience in Java, Spring, REST, and NoSQL databases
• Experience building event-driven pipelines based on SQS, SNS, Kafka. Knowledge of stream processing platforms like Flink and workflow engines like temporal etc.
• 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
• Experience with Python
• Experience in CI (Continuous Integration) and CD (Continuous Deployment)

Benefits & Perks

Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits.

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.

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