Principal Engineer, Search Platform

Responsibilities

• Lead Enterprise Trust & Compliance
• Own technical strategy and delivery for enterprise requirements - multi-cloud (GCP/AWS), Isolated Cloud, FedRAMP, BYOK encryption, and data residency - making Search a platform enterprises can trust. Proactively simplifying architecture and removing
• Shape the Indexing Platform for AI-era Workloads: Evolve high-throughput, low-latency distributed indexing pipelines to meet the retrieval demands of agentic and AI use cases - freshness, context relevance, and scale across billions of events.
• Connect Across Teams and Systems: Work fluidly across ML, Data, Cloud Infrastructure, and product teams - aligning technical direction, unblocking dependencies, and building shared platform capabilities that multiply the impact of teams beyond your own. Help improve support for building and operating systems that…
• Drive System Efficiency at Scale: Improve ingestion throughput, data freshness, and reliability while optimizing for unit economics through smarter sharding, disaggregated storage, and compute efficiency.
• Capitalize on Agentic Development Advances: Stay ahead of the curve on retrieval architectures, vector/hybrid indexing, and agentic memory patterns - bringing external advances in to accelerate Atlassian's platform and product roadmap.
• 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.

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