Principal Software Engineer

Work180; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & wellbeing resources

Volunteer days

Perks & benefits

Job summary

At Atlassian, you can work where you want—office, home, or a blend—while helping build a world‑class engineering organization. You will tackle large, complex problems, lead high‑impact projects, and drive architectural standards across teams.

You will mentor junior engineers, emphasize customer impact, and apply modern testing, reliability, and observability practices to scale systems.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of Full Stack development with Java/Scala/Node/JavaScript/React.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Deep experience in systems engineering at scale: testing, reliability, security, observability.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to explain complex tech to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers and collaborating across teams.
• Always consider customer impact when making technical decisions.
• Familiarity with A/B testing techniques.

Responsibilities

• Regularly tackle the largest and most complex problems on the team, from technical design to launch.
• Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects and determine plans-of-attack on large projects.
• Routinely tackle complex architecture challenges and apply architectural standards and start using them on new projects.
• Be a champion across the Atlassian organisation for continually raising the technical bar and evangelizing a high technical standard.
• Partner across Engineering teams to take on company-wide initiatives spanning multiple projects.
• Transfer your depth of knowledge and share best engineering practices to improve engineering excellence.
• Mentor and grow the next generation of technical leaders at Atlassian.

Skills

Java

Scala

Node.js

JavaScript

React

Communication

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS or equivalent

Job description

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.

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.

In this role, you will:

• Regularly tackle the largest and most complex problems on the team, from technical design to launch

• Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects and determine plans-of-attack on large projects

• Routinely tackle complex architecture challenges and apply architectural standards and start using them on new projects

• Be a champion across the Atlassian organisation for continually raising the technical bar and evangelizing a high technical standard

• Partner across Engineering teams to take on company-wide initiatives spanning multiple projects

• Transfer your depth of knowledge and share best engineering practices to improve engineering excellence

• Mentor and grow the next generation of technical leaders at Atlassian

Your background:

• 10+ years experience in Full Stack development with one or more prominent languages such as Java, Scala, Node, Javascript, React.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree (preferably a Computer Science degree or equivalent experience).

• Deep experience in systems engineering at scale with regards to testing, reliability, security, and observability.

• Excellent communication skills in written and verbal forms, and an ability to communicate complex technical issues to a range of technical and non-technical audiences (management, peers).

• Experience with collaborating with and mentoring junior members of the team.

• Consider the customer impact when making technical decisions.

• Familiarity with A/B testing techniques.

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.