Atlassian

Principal Software Engineer

Atlassian
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2 months ago
Remote, Worldwide or Seattle, WA, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$174k - $274k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own customer-facing product features end to end across full-stack front ends, backend services, and APIs.
  • Make architecture and technical decisions aligned with user and business outcomes.
  • Use telemetry and user behavior to define success metrics, monitor systems, investigate root causes, and guide product changes.
  • Design and build AI-enabled and agentic experiences integrating LLMs and AI workflows.
  • Set technical direction, influence product strategy, and partner with product managers, designers, and platform teams.
  • Raise engineering standards through coding, design reviews, coaching, and mentoring.
  • Identify high-leverage problems, prototype solutions, and drive them to production-grade quality, reliability, and performance.
  • Lead multi-team technical initiatives, author architectural RFCs, drive cross-functional alignment, and mentor senior engineers.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of professional software engineering experience across frontend and backend domains, or a Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline with equivalent practical experience.
  • Deep hands-on expertise building scalable, accessible, performant, and responsive web applications with modern JavaScript/TypeScript and frameworks such as React.
  • Experience designing, building, and maintaining robust, high-throughput backend services and microservices at massive scale.
  • Strong foundation in cloud architectures, distributed data stores, event-driven architectures, caching strategies, and REST/GraphQL API design.
  • Extensive experience establishing CI/CD pipelines, automated testing strategies, production telemetry, and service reliability against strict SLIs/SLOs.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead high-ambiguity, multi-team technical initiatives, write comprehensive architectural RFCs, drive cross-functional alignment, and mentor senior engineers.

Benefits

  • Flexible choice to work from an office, remotely, or in a combination of both, subject to countries where Atlassian has a legal entity.
  • Health and wellbeing resources and paid volunteer days.
  • The role may be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
  • Workplace accommodations or adjustments are available during the recruitment process.
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About Atlassian

10,000+ employees

Atlassian powers the collaboration that helps teams accomplish what would otherwise be impossible alone. From space missions and motor racing to bugs in code and IT requests, no task is too large or too small with the right team, the right tools, and the right practices. Over 300,000 global companies and 80% of the Fortune 500 rely on Atlassian’s software, like Jira, Confluence, Loom, and Trello, to help their teams work better together and deliver quality results on time. With our 300,000+ customers and team of 10,000+ Atlassians, we are building the next generation of team collaboration and productivity software. We believe the power of teams has the potential to change the world — one that is more open, authentic, and inclusive.

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