Atlassian · 2 hours ago
Senior Principal Software Engineer, AI Trust & Safety
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$199K/yr - $313K/yr
12+ years expAtlassian is a company focused on unleashing the potential of every team through their software products. They are seeking a Senior Principal Software Engineer to lead the application of AI for Trust & Safety, defining standards and building AI-driven workflows to enhance customer trust and safety. The role involves architecting systems, collaborating across teams, and optimizing AI solutions for production environments.
CollaborationEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSoftware
Responsibilities
Define and enforce standards for AI trust, safety, and responsible use across Atlassian
Provide security and trust capabilities that product teams can build on
Protect Atlassian’s products and cloud infrastructure from abuse and malicious activity
Safeguard customer data and uphold our privacy and compliance commitments
Own the Applied AI Roadmap for Trust & Safety
Architect the systems for AI-driven trust workflows
Build and integrate LLMs and AI services into production systems
Define and implement guardrails, evaluations, and monitoring to keep AI-powered systems safe and accountable
Build the data pipelines, APIs, and tooling that make AI practical, observable, and cost-efficient in production
Optimize cloud infrastructure costs and build tooling to manage AI/data spending at scale
Collaborate with teams across Atlassian to improve our AI Trust & Safety posture
Qualification
Required
12+ years of industry experience in software engineering, with a strong track record of building and operating production systems at scale
Strong proficiency in Python and at least one of Go or Java, with the ability to write mature, production‑quality code
Demonstrated applied AI experience in production, such as: Integrating foundation models (LLMs or other generative models) into products or internal tools, Designing and operating agentic or workflow‑orchestration systems that call multiple tools and services, Building retrieval or context systems (e.g., vector databases, embeddings pipelines) for AI workflows
Hands‑on experience with cloud data and compute platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Databricks, Spark, SQL), and with designing data models and pipelines for AI‑driven applications
Proven operational maturity: you've owned services end‑to‑end, handled incidents, and improved reliability, quality, and cost efficiency over time
Strong communication and collaboration skills, including: The ability to explain AI/ML concepts and tradeoffs to non‑technical stakeholders, A track record of influencing senior leaders and driving alignment across teams
Demonstrated success leading large, ambiguous, cross‑functional efforts from concept through to measurable impact
Experience in or strong interest in security, privacy, anti-abuse, or trust & safety domains
Benefits
Health and wellbeing resources
Paid volunteer days
Company
Atlassian
Atlassian is a software company that offers proprietary software products for teamwork, project management, and software development.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$210MKey Investors
T. Rowe PriceAccel
2015-12-10IPO
2014-04-08Secondary Market· $150M
2010-07-14Series A· $60M
Leadership Team
Michael Cannon-Brookes
Co-founder & Co-CEO
Scott Farquhar
Co-Founder and Board Member
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