Principal Engineer - Observability

oblems to deliver customer value incrementally

• Help identify where our service offerings fall short and how we can offer the best possible Observability solutions to all Atlassian

• Be an Observability evangelist and help Atlassian teams adopt the best Observability standards and practices

• Routinely tackle complex architectural challenges and apply architectural standards and start using them on new projects

• Lead code reviews & documentation as well as take on complex bug fixes, especially on high-risk problems

• Work alongside other Principal Engineers and Architects to drive a shared strategy across our teams

• Partner across engineering to empower initiatives that will impact and benefit multiple teams

• Mentor junior members of the team

Your background

• Strong experience with building, running, and monitoring large scale distributed systems on AWS, with a focus on capacity management and troubleshooting platforms at scale

• Experience with Observability tooling

• Experience coaching and mentoring more junior engineers and setting them up for success

• Experience with technically leading large scale projects from design to delivery in a collaborative

Nice to haves

• High proficiency with Observability concepts (specifically metrics and distributed tracing) and tools
• Experience with and involvement in the OpenTelemetry project. Atlassian has been making a huge investment in OpenTelemetry and it is the backbone of our Observability strategy. Having prior experience with OpenTelemetry will help you add tremendous value to the team
• Experience writing software in Go and Java. All our Observability tooling and products are written in either of these languages.