Senior Principal Engineer, Identity
Atlassian
Senior Principal Engineer, Identity
Job Description
Senior Principal Engineer, Identity
📋 Job Overview
The Senior Principal Engineer, Identity at Atlassian will shape the technical direction and long-term architecture of the Identity Platform. This role involves collaborating with various leaders to address security and compliance needs across all customer segments, and mentoring a large team of engineers at different seniority levels.
📍 Location: Mountain View, United States or Remote (Remote/Hybrid)
🏢 Category: Engineering
📅 Posted: 2025-09-25 05:56 PM
🎯 Key Responsibilities
- Shape the forward-looking technical direction and long-term architecture for the Identity Platform
- Collaborate with product, engineering and design leaders to understand and influence the broader department level long term strategy
- Build a technical strategy to address the security and compliance needs of the full spectrum of customers
- Ensure that the technical strategy is aligned with the technical strategy of Atlassian products and platforms
- Partner with principal engineers and architects from other teams and drive exploration of large-scale projects spanning multiple teams
- Provide pragmatic and balanced advice to the engineering leaders to invest in the long term architecture while also servicing the current systems with high quality
- Improve, through example, the quality of software construction and meaningful code reviews in an agile environment
- Be a role model for, and influence a large team of engineers at multiple seniority levels all the way from grads to principal engineers, and mentor engineers across the teams
- Be influential within your team and work with peers and senior leaders to define and revise the standards for operational excellence across Atlassian
- Mentor, hire and develop other engineers
✅ Required Qualifications
- 12+ years of experience building software, with 4+ years in an architect/principal role working across teams
- Expert-level proficiency with 5+ years experience in Identity and Access Management systems
- Broad experience architecting, designing, building large-scale systems (for enterprises) with multiple dependencies
- Passion for building quality solutions and up-keeping quality standards
- Success with building, expressing, and pitching a technical vision to stakeholders
- Experience with collaboration with an ecosystem of teams
- Success with leading the long-term strategy for software architecture
- Experience with building and operating large scale, high availability, high reliability services
- Experience in operational requirements and common challenges of software systems
- Experience working on security and compliance-related features
- A desire to influence the company's technical direction
- An ability and desire to mentor and coach engineers
- Proficiency in spoken and written English
🛠️ Required Skills
- Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Architecting
- Designing
- Building large-scale systems
- Security
- Compliance
- Mentoring
- Coaching
- Collaboration
- Technical vision
- Agile environment
- Software construction
- Code reviews
- Operational excellence
- English proficiency
🎁 Benefits & Perks
- Health coverage
- Paid volunteer days
- Wellness resources
Locations
- Mountain View, United States or Remote (Remote)
Salary
198,900 - 312,550 USD / yearly
Estimated Salary Rangemedium confidence
250,000 - 350,000 USD / yearly
Source: ai estimated
* This is an estimated range based on market data and may vary based on experience and qualifications.
Skills Required
- Identity and Access Management (IAM)intermediate
- Architectingintermediate
- Designingintermediate
- Building large-scale systemsintermediate
- Securityintermediate
- Complianceintermediate
- Mentoringintermediate
- Coachingintermediate
- Collaborationintermediate
- Technical visionintermediate
- Agile environmentintermediate
- Software constructionintermediate
- Code reviewsintermediate
- Operational excellenceintermediate
- English proficiencyintermediate
Required Qualifications
- 12+ years of experience building software, with 4+ years in an architect/principal role working across teams (experience)
- Expert-level proficiency with 5+ years experience in Identity and Access Management systems (experience)
- Broad experience architecting, designing, building large-scale systems (for enterprises) with multiple dependencies (experience)
- Passion for building quality solutions and up-keeping quality standards (experience)
- Success with building, expressing, and pitching a technical vision to stakeholders (experience)
- Experience with collaboration with an ecosystem of teams (experience)
- Success with leading the long-term strategy for software architecture (experience)
- Experience with building and operating large scale, high availability, high reliability services (experience)
- Experience in operational requirements and common challenges of software systems (experience)
- Experience working on security and compliance-related features (experience)
- A desire to influence the company's technical direction (experience)
- An ability and desire to mentor and coach engineers (experience)
- Proficiency in spoken and written English (experience)
Responsibilities
- Shape the forward-looking technical direction and long-term architecture for the Identity Platform
- Collaborate with product, engineering and design leaders to understand and influence the broader department level long term strategy
- Build a technical strategy to address the security and compliance needs of the full spectrum of customers
- Ensure that the technical strategy is aligned with the technical strategy of Atlassian products and platforms
- Partner with principal engineers and architects from other teams and drive exploration of large-scale projects spanning multiple teams
- Provide pragmatic and balanced advice to the engineering leaders to invest in the long term architecture while also servicing the current systems with high quality
- Improve, through example, the quality of software construction and meaningful code reviews in an agile environment
- Be a role model for, and influence a large team of engineers at multiple seniority levels all the way from grads to principal engineers, and mentor engineers across the teams
- Be influential within your team and work with peers and senior leaders to define and revise the standards for operational excellence across Atlassian
- Mentor, hire and develop other engineers
Benefits
- general: Health coverage
- general: Paid volunteer days
- general: Wellness resources
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Senior Principal Engineer, Identity
Atlassian
Senior Principal Engineer, Identity
Job Description
Senior Principal Engineer, Identity
📋 Job Overview
The Senior Principal Engineer, Identity at Atlassian will shape the technical direction and long-term architecture of the Identity Platform. This role involves collaborating with various leaders to address security and compliance needs across all customer segments, and mentoring a large team of engineers at different seniority levels.
📍 Location: Mountain View, United States or Remote (Remote/Hybrid)
🏢 Category: Engineering
📅 Posted: 2025-09-25 05:56 PM
🎯 Key Responsibilities
- Shape the forward-looking technical direction and long-term architecture for the Identity Platform
- Collaborate with product, engineering and design leaders to understand and influence the broader department level long term strategy
- Build a technical strategy to address the security and compliance needs of the full spectrum of customers
- Ensure that the technical strategy is aligned with the technical strategy of Atlassian products and platforms
- Partner with principal engineers and architects from other teams and drive exploration of large-scale projects spanning multiple teams
- Provide pragmatic and balanced advice to the engineering leaders to invest in the long term architecture while also servicing the current systems with high quality
- Improve, through example, the quality of software construction and meaningful code reviews in an agile environment
- Be a role model for, and influence a large team of engineers at multiple seniority levels all the way from grads to principal engineers, and mentor engineers across the teams
- Be influential within your team and work with peers and senior leaders to define and revise the standards for operational excellence across Atlassian
- Mentor, hire and develop other engineers
✅ Required Qualifications
- 12+ years of experience building software, with 4+ years in an architect/principal role working across teams
- Expert-level proficiency with 5+ years experience in Identity and Access Management systems
- Broad experience architecting, designing, building large-scale systems (for enterprises) with multiple dependencies
- Passion for building quality solutions and up-keeping quality standards
- Success with building, expressing, and pitching a technical vision to stakeholders
- Experience with collaboration with an ecosystem of teams
- Success with leading the long-term strategy for software architecture
- Experience with building and operating large scale, high availability, high reliability services
- Experience in operational requirements and common challenges of software systems
- Experience working on security and compliance-related features
- A desire to influence the company's technical direction
- An ability and desire to mentor and coach engineers
- Proficiency in spoken and written English
🛠️ Required Skills
- Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Architecting
- Designing
- Building large-scale systems
- Security
- Compliance
- Mentoring
- Coaching
- Collaboration
- Technical vision
- Agile environment
- Software construction
- Code reviews
- Operational excellence
- English proficiency
🎁 Benefits & Perks
- Health coverage
- Paid volunteer days
- Wellness resources
Locations
- Mountain View, United States or Remote (Remote)
Salary
198,900 - 312,550 USD / yearly
Estimated Salary Rangemedium confidence
250,000 - 350,000 USD / yearly
Source: ai estimated
* This is an estimated range based on market data and may vary based on experience and qualifications.
Skills Required
- Identity and Access Management (IAM)intermediate
- Architectingintermediate
- Designingintermediate
- Building large-scale systemsintermediate
- Securityintermediate
- Complianceintermediate
- Mentoringintermediate
- Coachingintermediate
- Collaborationintermediate
- Technical visionintermediate
- Agile environmentintermediate
- Software constructionintermediate
- Code reviewsintermediate
- Operational excellenceintermediate
- English proficiencyintermediate
Required Qualifications
- 12+ years of experience building software, with 4+ years in an architect/principal role working across teams (experience)
- Expert-level proficiency with 5+ years experience in Identity and Access Management systems (experience)
- Broad experience architecting, designing, building large-scale systems (for enterprises) with multiple dependencies (experience)
- Passion for building quality solutions and up-keeping quality standards (experience)
- Success with building, expressing, and pitching a technical vision to stakeholders (experience)
- Experience with collaboration with an ecosystem of teams (experience)
- Success with leading the long-term strategy for software architecture (experience)
- Experience with building and operating large scale, high availability, high reliability services (experience)
- Experience in operational requirements and common challenges of software systems (experience)
- Experience working on security and compliance-related features (experience)
- A desire to influence the company's technical direction (experience)
- An ability and desire to mentor and coach engineers (experience)
- Proficiency in spoken and written English (experience)
Responsibilities
- Shape the forward-looking technical direction and long-term architecture for the Identity Platform
- Collaborate with product, engineering and design leaders to understand and influence the broader department level long term strategy
- Build a technical strategy to address the security and compliance needs of the full spectrum of customers
- Ensure that the technical strategy is aligned with the technical strategy of Atlassian products and platforms
- Partner with principal engineers and architects from other teams and drive exploration of large-scale projects spanning multiple teams
- Provide pragmatic and balanced advice to the engineering leaders to invest in the long term architecture while also servicing the current systems with high quality
- Improve, through example, the quality of software construction and meaningful code reviews in an agile environment
- Be a role model for, and influence a large team of engineers at multiple seniority levels all the way from grads to principal engineers, and mentor engineers across the teams
- Be influential within your team and work with peers and senior leaders to define and revise the standards for operational excellence across Atlassian
- Mentor, hire and develop other engineers
Benefits
- general: Health coverage
- general: Paid volunteer days
- general: Wellness resources
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