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Senior Principal Software Engineer JIRA Search

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4 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Own the team’s technical evolution and long-term architecture for enterprise-scale data movement, governance, resiliency, and data health.
  • Lead major Jira Platform architectural initiatives from strategy and milestones through delivery, adoption, and customer outcomes.
  • Define and drive a 12–24 month roadmap for shared platform primitives and make prioritization trade-offs.
  • Improve reliability, performance, observability, security, and operational excellence for systems handling critical enterprise data.
  • Provide hands-on technical leadership through design reviews, deep investigations, incident reviews, and high-risk problem solving.
  • Mentor Principal and senior engineers and drive complex cross-organizational initiatives through influence and senior leadership buy-in.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 12+ years of experience developing large-scale distributed systems.
  • 4+ years of experience providing architectural oversight and technical leadership.
  • Experience with SQL and NoSQL datastores, preferably PostgreSQL and OpenSearch.
  • Experience with data streaming using Kafka or Flink and CDC eventing.
  • Ability to drive complex step-change initiatives across distributed, cross-organizational teams and secure senior leadership buy-in.

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