Product-Driven Principal Software Engineer (AI & Systems)

Atlassian Corp.; San Francisco, Seattle, New York (CA, WA, NY); Hybrid; USD 210,000 - 274,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing resources

Volunteer days

Job summary

At Atlassian, principal engineers will own customer-facing products end to end across the full stack, shaping what gets built with strong product judgment. This hands-on IC role emphasizes architecture, large-scale features, and collaboration with product, design, and data teams to deliver impactful outcomes for teams worldwide.

You will mentor engineers, drive reliability and security practices, and contribute to a culture of innovation and operational excellence while working across flexible

Qualifications

• 10+ years of full stack experience spanning product and platform engineering.
• Proven ability to architect, build, and operate large-scale distributed systems and user-facing apps.
• Strong product and UX mindset with excellent communication and collaboration.
• Experience establishing operational excellence, automated testing, telemetry, and reliability.
• Able to mentor and elevate engineering teams and influence across organizations.

Responsibilities

• Own customer-facing product experiences end to end across the full stack, shipping defined outcomes.
• Lead technical strategy and implement large-scale features and systems.
• Partner with product, design, data, and engineering to influence strategy and direction.
• Evaluate trade-offs between correctness, robustness, performance, and customer impact.
• Contribute to system design, reviews, documentation, and practices focused on security, performance and reliability.
• Mentor and level up the engineering organization with expertise.

Skills

Full stack engineering

Product mindset

Distributed systems

Mentorship

System design

Job description

At Atlassian, principal engineers will own customer-facing products end to end across the full stack, shaping what gets built with strong product judgment. This hands-on IC role emphasizes architecture, large-scale features, and collaboration with product, design, and data teams to deliver impactful outcomes for teams worldwide.

You will mentor engineers, drive reliability and security practices, and contribute to a culture of innovation and operational excellence while working across flexible