Top Engineering Jobs in New York City, NY

Principal Software Engineer responsible for owning customer-facing products end to end, leading technical strategy, architecting large-scale distributed systems, and delivering AI-native experiences. The role involves full-stack implementation, product strategy, system design, code reviews, reliability, testing, telemetry, security, performance, and mentoring engineers. Candidates must have extensive experience building and operating large-scale systems and strong product, UX, communication, and collaboration skills.

Lead Atlassian’s TDP SQL engineering team, owning people leadership, platform strategy, roadmap execution, reliability, security, compliance, incident response, technical direction, cross-functional dependencies, infrastructure economics, and operational outcomes. Build a high-performing organization and evolve a scalable managed relational database platform across multiple cloud environments while supporting enterprise requirements such as data residency, encryption, disaster recovery, and tenant isolation.

Leads a team of 10–15 software engineers responsible for Atlassian Government Cloud release infrastructure and processes. Owns release planning, readiness, go/no-go decisions, cutover, verification, rollback, incident escalation, and compliance. Defines a multi-quarter roadmap covering trunk-based development, feature flags, progressive rollouts, automated gates, and rollback automation. Partners across engineering, product, QA, SRE, security, and compliance while coaching team members and improving release reliability.

Leads and develops software engineering teams responsible for customer acquisition, experimentation, personalization, and SEO/AEO features. Owns delivery outcomes, prioritization, technical strategy, architecture, system resilience, engineering excellence, and team health. Partners with product managers, TPMs, designers, and recruiting teams while guiding distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, developer tooling, and applied AI/ML initiatives.

Leads technical strategy, architecture, and engineering execution across Atlassian’s Rovo Chat, Search, Growth, Apps, and Clients experiences. The role drives scalable AI foundations, Search and Chat convergence, personalization, experimentation, reliability, security, and operational excellence. It involves leading cross-organizational initiatives, partnering with product, design, data science, and machine learning teams, mentoring senior engineers, and shaping multi-year technical roadmaps for customer-facing applications.

Provides technical leadership on complex, high-impact engineering projects from design through launch. The role involves architecture, company-wide initiatives, engineering excellence, mentoring technical leaders, and establishing standards for scalable, reliable, secure, observable systems. The engineer will collaborate across teams, communicate complex technical topics, and apply customer-focused decision-making and A/B testing techniques.

Build and ship backend features end-to-end using Ruby on Rails and SQL. Lead complex technical projects, solve architecture challenges, establish standards, conduct meaningful code reviews, resolve high-risk bugs, document systems, collaborate across engineering teams, and mentor junior engineers.