Principal Full-Stack Engineer, Remote — Enterprise SaaS

Atlassian; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 210,000 - 274,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing resources

Paid volunteer days

Job summary

Atlassian is hiring a Principal Fullstack Software Engineer who can work where they work—office, home, or a blend—across locations where we have a legal entity. The role emphasizes scalable features, strong engineering leadership, and high-security, well-tested code for a SaaS platform.

The position offers collaboration with product, design, and engineering teams to guide technical direction, improve performance, and mentor peers.

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)

Skills

Java

Kotlin

Observability tools

Service operations

Cross-company collaboration

Coaching engineers

Tools

AWS offerings

Job description

Atlassian is hiring a Principal Fullstack Software Engineer who can work where they work—office, home, or a blend—across locations where we have a legal entity. The role emphasizes scalable features, strong engineering leadership, and high-security, well-tested code for a SaaS platform.

The position offers collaboration with product, design, and engineering teams to guide technical direction, improve performance, and mentor peers.