Principal Frontend Software Engineer

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Hiring Remotely in San Francisco, CA, USA
In-Office or Remote
174K-274K Annually
Expert/Leader
Cloud • Information Technology • Productivity • Security • Software • App development • Automation
Atlassian provides tools to help every team unleash their full potential.
The Role
Design and develop enterprise-grade frontend software for Atlassian’s Jira Align platform. Build new initiatives from scratch, improve feature security, reliability, performance, and operational quality, and make customer-focused technical tradeoffs. Oversee daily operations of built systems, collaborate with distributed teams, mentor junior engineers, and develop integrations and data synchronization using event-driven architectures.
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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.
To help our teams work together effectively, this role is fully remote, but requires you to be located in either US Pacific or Mountain time zones.
As an important contributor to the Enterprise Agility team, you will simplify Agile Software development at scale by bringing business and software development organizations together in one intuitive platform. Our flagship product in the enterprise agile planning market is Jira Align, and we are doubling down on our investment.
In your role as Principal Front End Software Engineer, you will be part of the development team to bring to life a new initiative from scratch to connect strategy to execution at scale by using the Atlassian platform, open toolchain principles, and philosophy of aligned autonomy for teams.
You will be part of a efficient team empowered to achieve their goals. We are looking for engineers who excel in dynamic environments and embrace. As a remote-first company, you will work with a distributed team
What you'll do
  • Responsible for design and development while collaborating with others to ensure the impact is achieved.
  • Improve operational quality of features built by enterprise agility team, security, reliability, and performance
  • Consider the customer and business impact of decisions and make appropriate tradeoffs
  • Contribute to a collaborative and inclusive environment where everyone feels comfortable asking questions, looking for help, and sharing their perspectives.
  • Oversee the daily operations of the systems you build.

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.
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
Your background
  • Experience developing enterprise-grade quality software
  • 10+ years of experience building large-scale frontend applications using React.
  • Bachelor's degree with a preference for Computer Science degree
  • Understanding of modern frontend ecosystem, including bundling, linting, testing and releasing
  • Success with mentoring more junior Engineers - Experience in Agile software development methodologies
  • Experience with micro-service architectures and are comfortable with Docker/Kubernetes.
  • Experience working with Amazon Web Services (EC2, SQS, S3)
  • You have experience building integrations and data synchronizations with event pub/sub models.

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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.

Skills Required

  • Experience developing enterprise-grade quality software
  • 10+ years of experience building large-scale frontend applications using React
  • Bachelor's degree
  • Computer Science degree
  • Understanding of the modern frontend ecosystem, including bundling, linting, testing, and releasing
  • Experience mentoring more junior engineers
  • Experience with Agile software development methodologies
  • Experience with microservice architectures
  • Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
  • Experience working with Amazon Web Services, including EC2, SQS, and S3
  • Experience building integrations and data synchronizations using event pub/sub models

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Atlassian Compensation & Benefits Highlights

  • Parental & Family Support 26 weeks paid leave for birthing parents and 20 weeks for non‑birthing parents are offered, alongside inclusive family‑formation support such as fertility, adoption, and surrogacy. Additional resources include neurodiverse family support and conveniences like breastmilk shipping for business travel.
  • Healthcare Strength Medical, dental, and vision coverage is paired with extensive mental‑health programs (e.g., Modern Health/EAP), plus disability and life insurance in many locations. Fertility and family‑formation benefits further expand the health offering.
  • Retirement Support A 401(k) with a 4% company match and 100% immediate vesting is highlighted for U.S. employees. Retirement planning support is also included.

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HQ: San Francisco, CA
11,000 Employees
Year Founded: 2012

What We Do

Atlassian creates teamwork solutions for high-performing teams. Our portfolio of collaboration and work management software products includes Jira, Confluence, Trello, Loom and Rovo. More than 300,000 businesses worldwide rely on Atlassian’s technology, including 80 percent of Fortune 500 companies. Our solutions support various business teams and they help organizations plan, track, and deliver their biggest ideas together.

Why Work With Us

At Atlassian, we believe we can accomplish so much more together than apart — which is why everything from our tooling — to our distributed workforce — to how our teams are structured is rooted in collaboration. Come join us and help unleash the potential of every team.

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