Principal Full-Stack Engineer — Lead Scale SaaS (Remote)

Atlassian Corp.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 189,000 - 246,000; Full time

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Job summary

Atlassian is seeking a Principal Fullstack Software Engineer to lead the design and delivery of large-scale product features across teams. You will influence product strategy, guide technical direction, and ensure robust, secure code that serves customers worldwide.

You will mentor engineers, improve growth of the team, and advocate for design patterns, testing, and performance. This remote-friendly role offers flexible working arrangements and comprehensive compensation.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience designing/building enterprise-grade solutions using microservices.
• Background in Java, Kotlin, Observability tools, and service operations.
• In-depth knowledge of AWS offerings.
• Experience building distributed systems for a SaaS product.
• Passion and experience with recognizing, raising, and reconciling gaps and redundant efforts across organizations.
• Success with cross-company collaboration.
• Experience influencing and performance coaching engineers.

Responsibilities

• Understand the user journey and user funnel.
• Collaborate with product, design and engineering to influence product strategy and direction.
• Guide the technical direction and implementation of large-scale product features.
• Evaluate trade-offs between correctness, robustness, performance and customer impact to ensure we build the right solution.
• Debug inefficiencies on the team and fix them.
• Ship well-tested, secure, reliable, and maintainable code while keeping our customers best interests in mind.
• Contribute to code reviews, documentation, and complex bug fixes with security, performance and reliability in mind.
• Mentor and level up the skills of your teammates by sharing your expertise.
• Improve the growth engineering team through mentoring.
• Identify blockers to ensure software engineering excellence (design principles and patterns, unit testing, performance engineering, best practices for security and privacy).
• Recognize, raise, and reconcile gaps across organizations to improve efficiency.

Skills

Java

Kotlin

Microservices

Distributed systems

SaaS product

Tools

Observability tools

AWS

Job description

Atlassian is seeking a Principal Fullstack Software Engineer to lead the design and delivery of large-scale product features across teams. You will influence product strategy, guide technical direction, and ensure robust, secure code that serves customers worldwide.

You will mentor engineers, improve growth of the team, and advocate for design patterns, testing, and performance. This remote-friendly role offers flexible working arrangements and comprehensive compensation.