Principal Engineer, Backend Engineering at Atlassian Inc.
About the role
Overview Atlassian's internal AI usage is growing rapidly across engineering, driven by adoption of tools like Codex, Cursor, Claude Code, and Rovo CLI. This growth is a signal of value, and we need a Principal Engineer to build the infrastructure that makes it sustainable. You will own the technical vision and architecture for the DevInfra AI Front Proxy, a cloud-hosted service that sits at the developer-workflow boundary and governs every internal model call against cost, trust, context, and …
Interview process at Atlassian Inc.
General interview process (this company's specific loop isn't published - reach out if you have insider info).
- Recruiter phone screen - typically 20-40 min
- Technical screen - 1 coding problem or take-home; format varies by company
- Onsite / virtual loop - typically 4-6 rounds over 2-3 weeks; exact split of coding, systems design, and behavioral varies by role and location
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