Your future team

We’re looking for a passionate Principal Engineer (P60) to join the Design Systems AI team who is based in Australia or New Zealand. This is a unique opportunity for an experienced technical leader to drive the next wave of innovation in how Atlassian builds, maintains, and evolves its design systems using AI. 

As a Principal Engineer, you’ll mature Atlassian’s culture of AI prototyping and deeply integrate Atlassian Design systems into all AI tooling. You will inspire and guide teams to work more effectively with AI, creating a healthy system that ripples across our business, raising the baseline of AI confidence. You’ll play a pivotal role in architecting and scaling our AI-powered design system infrastructure, collaborating with world-class engineers, designers, and product leaders across Atlassian.

Working at Atlassian

Atlassian can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity. Assuming you have eligible working rights and a sufficient time zone overlap with your team, you can choose to work remotely or from an office (unless it's necessary for your role to be performed in the office). Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.

With a sufficient timezone overlap with the team, we're able to hire eligible candidates for this role from any location in Australia or New Zealand.

In this role, you’ll get the chance to:

• Lead the technical vision and architecture for AI-driven design system solutions, ensuring scalability, reliability, and compliance with Atlassian’s frontend standards.

• Drive the development of generative AI tools that produce frontend code aligned with our design system and accessibility requirements.

• Tackle the challenges of maintaining and evolving a system of 100+ packages, including content, standards, and tooling.

• Mentor and guide engineers across the team, fostering a culture of technical excellence and innovation.

• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to deliver impactful solutions that elevate the user experience for millions of Atlassian customers.

Your background

• A strong interest in AI, especially in generative approaches for frontend code that adheres to design systems and frontend standards.

• Systems thinking and experience architecting and maintaining large-scale systems (100+ packages, content, standards, etc.).

• Proven Tech Lead experience: You’ve led complex technical initiatives and mentored other engineers.

• Experience with Javascript (ES6), HTML5, CSS and experience with modern Javascript frameworks (e.g., React, AngularJS, Vue).

• Bachelor's or Master's degree (preferably a Computer Science degree or equivalent experience).

• Extensive experience with modern testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, Cypress, Mocha, Chai).

• Strong comfortability with the JavaScript language and ecosystem.

• Experience in design system best practices.
  
  Our perks & benefits

  Atlassian offers a variety of perks and benefits to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health coverage, paid volunteer days, wellness resources, and so much more. Visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits to learn more.

  About Atlassian

  At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Our software products help teams all over the planet and our solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through our tools makes what may be impossible alone, possible together.

  We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

  To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.

  To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh.