Principal Backend Software Engineer

Atlassian India Llp; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 3,500,000 - 7,500,000; Full time

Job summary

At Atlassian, a Senior Principal Backend Software Engineer role is open in Bengaluru with flexible work options across India. You will tackle large, complex problems, design scalable architectures, and mentor engineers while delivering cross-team solutions for Jira, Confluence, Trello, and Bitbucket.

The ideal candidate brings 10+ years in software leadership, expertise in Java or NodeJS, hands-on cloud experience (AWS/GCP/Azure), and a strong focus on customer impact and developer productivity.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software/technology leadership with end-to-end SDLC responsibility.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field.

Responsibilities

• Tackle largest and most complex problems from technical design to launch.
• Deliver solutions used by other teams and products.
• Lead code reviews and documentation; mentor junior engineers.
• Shape architecture and set standards across multiple projects.
• Partner with teams on company-wide initiatives; transfer knowledge across languages.

Skills

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Code reviews

Architectural design

Customer impact awareness

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science

Tools

Java

Python

Kotlin

Go

Scala

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Principal Backend Software Engineer Overview

Working at Atlassian

Atlassians can choose where they work – whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities.

We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity. Our office is in Bengaluru, but we offer flexibility for eligible candidates to work remotely across India.

Whatever your preference—working from home, an office, or in between— you can choose the place that's best for your work and your lifestyle.

We're looking for a Principal Backend Software Engineer to join our team, passionately focused on delivering creative improvements for our engineering teams.

Your future team

To be a 100-year company, we are proudly building a world-class engineering organization composed of empowered teams that are equipped with the tools and infrastructure to do the best work of their careers. Engineering at Atlassian prioritizes initiatives that advance AI and support our customers' transition to the cloud while consistently delivering maximum value through our core product suite - Jira, Confluence, Trello, and Bitbucket. We seek individuals who are eager to shape the future and believe in the power of collaboration to achieve extraordinary results together.

Responsibilities

• Regularly tackle the largest and most complex problems on the team, from technical design to launch
• Deliver solutions that are used by other teams and products
• Determine plans-of-attack on large projects
• Routinely tackle complex architecture challenges and apply architectural standards and start using them on new projects
• Lead code reviews & documentation as well as take on complex bug fixes, especially on high-risk problems
• Set the standard for thorough, meaningful code reviews
• Partner across engineering teams to take on company-wide initiatives spanning multiple projects
• Transfer your depth of knowledge from your current language to excel as a Software Engineer
• Mentor more junior members of the team

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience in multiple hands-on software/technology leadership roles, with end-to-end responsibility through the software development lifecycle.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree (preferably a Computer Science degree or equivalent experience).
• Expertise with one or more prominent languages such as Java, Python, Kotlin, Go, or Scala is required.
• Understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS industry with hands-on experience with public cloud offerings (e.g., AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Knowledge to evaluate trade-offs between correctness, robustness, performance, space and time.
• Practice in mentoring other engineers and influencing decision makers throughout the organization.
• Considers the customer impact when making technical decisions.
• Experience in Developer Experience or Developer Productivity.
• Proficiency in Java or NodeJS.
• Experience in at least one additional language.
• Experience in CI (Continuous Integration) and CD (Continuous Deployment)

Benefits & Perks

Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits .

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 . In line with local law, identity verification (which may include use of biometric data) is a condition of employment with Atlassian for employment fraud purposes. Experience Level Senior Level