Overview

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Responsibilities

As a Principal Engineer in Search Platform, you will serve as a technical leader driving the core indexing engines and enterprise-grade trust capabilities that power Atlassian Search and Rovo.
You will lead the technical vision, architecture and delivery for planetary-scale data ingestion and indexing platforms while ensuring Search meets strict enterprise commitments across multi-cloud (GCP/AWS), isolated cloud, compliance, and encryption.
Responsibilities
- Lead Enterprise Trust & Compliance: Own technical strategy and delivery for enterprise requirements - multi-cloud (GCP/AWS), Isolated Cloud, FedRAMP, BYOK encryption, and data residency - making Search a platform enterprises can trust. Proactively simplifying architecture and removing




- Shape the Indexing Platform for AI-era Workloads: Evolve high-throughput, low-latency distributed indexing pipelines to meet the retrieval demands of agentic and AI use cases - freshness, context relevance, and scale across billions of events.
- Connect Across Teams and Systems: Work fluidly across ML, Data, Cloud Infrastructure, and product teams - aligning technical direction, unblocking dependencies, and building shared platform capabilities that multiply the impact of teams beyond your own. Help improve support for building and operating systems that deliver true Enterprise Trust through Atlassian-wide platforms, while actively simplifying the architecture and eliminating accumulated complexity.
- Drive System Efficiency at Scale: Improve ingestion throughput, data freshness, and reliability while optimizing for unit economics through smarter sharding, disaggregated storage, and compute efficiency.
- Capital

📌 Principal Engineer, Search Platform (Bengaluru)
🏢 Atlassian
📍 Bengaluru