Principle Engineer

Jobs in JS; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 210,000 - 274,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing resources

Paid volunteer days

Job summary

Atlassian is hiring for a senior full stack engineer based in the Pacific Time zone or aligned regions. The role emphasizes technical leadership, large-scale system design, and collaboration across engineering teams. You will mentor junior staff and help shape engineering standards and practices.

We offer a broad compensation program, flexible work arrangements, and equity; base pay varies by geographic zone. This position may include benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in full stack development with languages like JavaScript, React, Java, Kotlin, or Node (or similar).
• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Strong preference for candidates located in or aligned with the Pacific Time (PT) zone.
• Deep experience in systems engineering at scale with testing, reliability, security, and observability.
• Excellent communication skills in written and verbal forms; ability to explain complex technical issues to varied audiences.
• Experience mentoring junior team members.
• Customer impact consideration when making technical decisions.
• Familiarity with A/B testing techniques.

Responsibilities

• Regularly tackle the largest and most complex problems from design to launch.
• Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects and plan attacks on large projects.
• Address complex architecture challenges and apply architectural standards.
• Raise the technical bar and evangelize high standards across Atlassian.
• Partner with Engineering teams on company-wide initiatives across multiple projects.
• Share knowledge and best engineering practices to improve excellence.
• Mentor and grow the next generation of technical leaders at Atlassian.

Skills

Full stack

JavaScript

React

Java/Kotlin/Scala

System design

AB testing

Education

Bachelor's/Master's CS

Job description

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.

Responsibilities

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

Compensation

At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. We follow consistent hiring practices and account for each candidate's skills, knowledge, and experience when setting base pay within the range.

Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.

This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.

Pay Ranges

In The United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:

Zone A: $209,700 - $273,775

Zone B: $188,730 - $246,398

Zone C: $174,051 - $227,233

In Canada, for this role, our current base pay range for new hires is:

Canada: CA$172,800 - CA$225,600

Qualifications

Your background

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

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

• Strong preference for candidates located in or aligned with the Pacific Time (PT) zone.

• 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.