Atlassian

Principal Engineer - Kubernetes Platform

Atlassian  •  San Francisco, CA / Seattle, WA (Remote)  •  3 days ago
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Job Description

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.

Responsibilities

As a Principal Engineer with Deep Engineer archetype in Kubernetes Platform, you will own technically complex, high-impact outcomes from problem definition through production. You will bring deep expertise in agent infrastructure and distributed systems to shape the platform’s architecture and technical direction. You’ll make sound trade-offs across security, isolation, performance, scalability, portability, cost, and developer experience, while remaining close to the code and operational reality.

You will influence across teams and geographies, partner with product and engineering leaders, and raise the effectiveness of engineers through coaching, design leadership, and practical engineering standards. Success will be measured by sustained outcomes—not activity—including safer workloads, faster iteration, reliable services, and leverage across Atlassian.

Responsibilities

  • Define and deliver the technical strategy for secure, low-latency compute infrastructure for AI agents and untrusted workloads.

  • Lead architecture and implementation of isolation, scheduling, lifecycle management, networking, policy enforcement, observability, and control-plane capabilities.

  • Own end-to-end outcomes for ambiguous, cross-team initiatives, from design and prioritisation to launch, adoption, and measurable operational results.

  • Advance portable, cloud-native execution across GCP and AWS while balancing platform consistency with regional and workload needs.

  • Champion operational excellence for a tier-0 platform: reliability, security, privacy, incident learning, performance, and cost efficiency.

  • Improve the developer experience through self-service APIs, automation, paved paths, and clear platform contracts.

  • Set direction through written proposals and thoughtful technical decisions; mentor engineers and help grow an inclusive, high-performing team.

Qualifications

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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About Atlassian

Atlassian powers the collaboration that helps teams accomplish what would otherwise be impossible alone.

From space missions and motor racing to bugs in code and IT requests, no task is too large or too small with the right team, the right tools, and the right practices.

Over 300,000 global companies and 80% of the Fortune 500 rely on Atlassian’s software, like Jira, Confluence, Loom, and Trello, to help their teams work better together and deliver quality results on time.

With our 300,000+ customers and team of 10,000+ Atlassians, we are building the next generation of team collaboration and productivity software.

We believe the power of teams has the potential to change the world — one that is more open, authentic, and inclusive.

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Sydney, AU
Year Founded
2002
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