Principal Software Engineer

Atlassian's Connector Platform organization powers how third-party data and applications connect into our products. We're looking for a Principal Software Engineer to help lead the team that owns the front door for all third-party traffic entering the platform: request admission, authentication, connector lifecycle, and the developer SDK that takes a third-party integration from spec to production. You'll help drive down the time it takes to bring a new integration to production, while raising the bar on reliability and security for a system that sits on the public edge of our platform.
Working at Atlassian
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In this role, you will:

• Set technical direction across a system spanning API gateway, developer SDK/tooling, authentication, and integration lifecycle management.
• Own architecture decisions for a declarative SDK and compiler/codegen pipeline that lets partners build integrations with less custom code.
• Drive design of a common gateway for authentication and request admission across all third-party integrations, decoupling platform scaling from product release cycles.
• Partner with adjacent engineering teams to keep shared identity and tenancy contracts stable as usage grows.
• Mentor engineers across multiple projects and raise the bar on architecture and code review.
• Represent your team in cross-organization architecture and technical tradeoff discussions.

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 hands-on software engineering experience, with end-to-end ownership through design, build, and operate for platform or infrastructure systems.
• Experience designing SDKs, schema/compiler systems, or declarative configuration engines.
• Experience building or operating gateway/edge systems handling authentication, traffic admission, and third-party integrations at scale.
• Track record setting technical direction across multiple teams and mentoring senior engineers.
• Comfortable with a contract-first, public-facing surface mindset.
• OAuth/credential management experience a plus.
• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

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.
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