Principal Software Engineer

Principal Software Engineer

Engineering | Seattle, United States | Remote, Remote

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The Role

We're looking for product-minded Principal Engineers. This is a hands-on P60 individual-contributor role for engineers who sit at the seam between deep technical craft and sharp product judgment — and can hold both at once. You'll own customer-facing products end to end across the full stack, shape what gets built rather than just how, and build the next generation of AI-native and agentic experiences used by teams all over the planet.

• Own customer-facing product features end to end across the full stack — React/TypeScript front ends, backend services, and APIs — taking ambiguous problems all the way to shipped, measured outcomes.
• Make architecture and technical decisions in service of user and business outcomes; let product goals drive the engineering, not the other way around.
• Use telemetry and user behavior to shape design — define success metrics (north star and guardrails), instrument, monitor, run root-cause deep dives, and change your mind when the data says so.
• Design and build AI-enabled and agentic experiences, integrating LLMs and AI workflows into products that reach millions of users.
• Set technical direction for your team and influence product strategy, partnering closely with product managers, designers, and platform teams.
• Raise the engineering bar through code, design reviews, coaching, and mentoring — leading by craft as a senior individual contributor.
• Find the highest-leverage problems in ambiguous spaces, prototype quickly, and drive prototypes to production-grade quality, reliability, and performance at scale.

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.

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

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

• Experience & Education: 10+ years of professional software engineering experience across both frontend and backend domains (or a Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline with equivalent practical experience).
• Frontend Architecture: Deep hands-on expertise building scalable, highly accessible, performant, and responsive web applications using modern JavaScript/TypeScript and frameworks (such as React).
• Backend Systems & Services: Proven track record designing, building, and maintaining robust, high-throughput backend services and microservices (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Node.js, Go, or Python) operating at massive scale.
• Distributed Systems & Cloud Infrastructure: Strong foundation in cloud architectures (e.g., AWS), distributed data stores (SQL/NoSQL), event-driven architectures, caching strategies, and REST/GraphQL API design.
• Operational Excellence & Reliability: Extensive experience establishing CI/CD pipelines, automated testing strategies, production telemetry (metrics, logs, distributed tracing), and managing service reliability against strict SLIs/SLOs.
• Technical Leadership & Scope: Demonstrated ability to lead high-ambiguity, multi-team technical initiatives, author comprehensive architectural RFCs, drive cross-functional alignment with Product and Design, and mentor senior engineers.

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.

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.

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