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Principal Software Engineer Jira Platform Search

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9 days ago
Remote, India or Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Drive high-complexity software solutions from architectural design through successful production launch.
  • Define technical roadmaps, scoping, and execution strategies for large-scale engineering initiatives.
  • Design scalable search architectures and lead the adoption of architectural standards across projects.
  • Lead high-impact code reviews, technical documentation, and resolution of critical system defects.
  • Establish rigorous code review standards and engineering best practices.
  • Partner with cross-organizational engineering teams on strategic company-wide programs.
  • Apply deep programming and domain expertise to new technology stacks and high-performance engineering outcomes.
  • Mentor and develop engineering talent while supporting team growth.

Requirements

  • 10+ years in hands-on software or technology architect roles with end-to-end SDLC ownership.
  • Bachelor’s degree preferred, ideally in Computer Science.
  • Deep production expertise in OpenSearch or Elasticsearch and Lucene indexing and query-execution internals.
  • Experience designing tenant isolation, data partitioning, shard placement, routing, and capacity strategies for distributed search systems.
  • Demonstrated improvements to search latency, indexing throughput, availability, and infrastructure efficiency using OpenSearch or similar search engines.
  • Expertise in reliable ingestion, index freshness, data correctness, permission-aware search, and online reindexing.
  • Experience with Lucene, Solr, or other search technologies.
  • Strong technical depth in distributed architectures, cloud-native services, and asynchronous or event-driven systems.
  • Experience architecting, operating, and scaling high-throughput distributed systems and cloud services, including AWS or GCP.
  • Preferred hands-on familiarity with Java, Kotlin, or the Kubernetes ecosystem.

Benefits

  • Flexible work location, including office, home, or a combination of both, subject to employment in a country where Atlassian has a legal entity.
  • Health and wellbeing resources.
  • Paid volunteer days.
  • Additional benefits and perks are available through Atlassian’s benefits program.
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