Senior Principal Software Engineer - Lead Large-Scale Systems

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

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.