Principal Software Engineer

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.

We're looking for product-minded Principal Engineers. This is a hands-on individual-contributor role for engineers who sit at the seam between deep technical craft and sharp product judgment. 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.

In this role, you will:

• Own customer-facing product experiences end to end across the full stack - taking ambiguous problems all the way to shipped, measured outcomes

• Lead technical strategy and the implementation large-scale features and systems

• Partner with product, design, data, and engineering to influence product strategy and direction

• Evaluate trade-offs between correctness, robustness, performance, and customer impact to ensure we build the right solution

• Contribute to system design, code reviews, documentation, and best practices with security, performance and reliability in mind

• Mentor and level up the engineering organization by sharing your expertise

Responsibilities

• 10+ years of full stack experience in product and platform engineering

• Proven ability to architect, build, and operate large-scale, distributed systems and user-facing applications

• Extensive experience establishing operational excellence, automated testing strategies, production telemetry, and managing service reliability

• Strong product and UX mindset

• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills; able to influence and partner across teams and organizations towards business outcomes

• Passion for innovation, continuous improvement, mentorship, and fostering an inclusive, high-performing engineering environment

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

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.