Principal Software Engineer — Lead Cloud & AI

Work180; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing resources

Paid volunteer days

Job summary

At Atlassian, you can work from anywhere - office, home, or a mix - with the freedom to choose how you work while supporting family, goals, and priorities. We are building a world-class engineering organization focused on AI initiatives and cloud transitions for Jira, Confluence, Trello, and Bitbucket.

You will tackle large-scale problems, provide technical leadership, and drive architectural excellence, mentoring the next generation of engineers across the company.

Qualifications

• 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 CS or equivalent).
• Deep experience in systems engineering at scale with regards to testing, reliability, security, and observability.
• Excellent communication skills in written and verbal forms, and ability to communicate complex technical issues to a range of audiences.
• 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.

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
• Be a champion across the Atlassian organisation for continually raising the technical bar
• 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

Full Stack development

Java

Scala

Node

JavaScript

React

Communication skills

Mentoring juniors

Customer impact mindset

A/B testing

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

N/A

Job description

At Atlassian, you can work from anywhere - office, home, or a mix - with the freedom to choose how you work while supporting family, goals, and priorities. We are building a world-class engineering organization focused on AI initiatives and cloud transitions for Jira, Confluence, Trello, and Bitbucket.

You will tackle large-scale problems, provide technical leadership, and drive architectural excellence, mentoring the next generation of engineers across the company.