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Responsibilities
- Own the technical evolution and long-term architecture of Jira Data Management, including enterprise-scale data movement, governance, resiliency, and data health.
- Lead major architectural initiatives across Jira Platform 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 across 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 influence technical direction across teams.
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.
- Department-level experience shaping technical direction across teams and influencing architecture beyond a single service.
- Experience leading major architectural initiatives and translating multi-year strategy into incremental delivery and measurable outcomes.
- Extensive experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems, data streaming platforms, and event-driven architecture.
- Broad knowledge of SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS and hands-on experience with public clouds such as AWS and/or GCP.
- Fluency in a modern object-oriented programming language such as Java, Golang, Python, or JavaScript.
- Experience mentoring senior engineers, leading technical reviews, and improving engineering quality and productivity.
- Ability to learn quickly and work effectively in ambiguous environments.
Benefits
- Distributed-first work model with the choice to work from an office, from home, or a combination of both, where legally available.
- Virtual interviews and onboarding.
- Health and wellbeing resources.
- Paid volunteer days.
- Potential eligibility for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
- Recruitment accommodations or adjustments are available upon request.
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