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We're looking for a Principal Fullstack Software Engineer to join our team, passionately focused on delivering creative improvements for our engineering teams. Note: We are looking to hiring in Vancouver, Canada for this position.
In this role, you will:
- Understand the user journey and user funnel
- Collaborate with product, design and engineering to influence product strategy and direction
- You will guide the technical direction and implementation of large-scale product features
- Evaluate trade-offs between correctness, robustness, performance and customer impact to ensure we build the right solution
- Debug inefficiencies on the team and fix them
- Ship well-tested, secure, reliable, and maintainable code while keeping our customers best interests in mind
- Contribute to code reviews, documentation, and complex bug fixes with security, performance and reliability in mind
- Mentor and level up the skills of your teammates by sharing your expertise
- Improve the growth engineering team through mentoring
- Identify blockers to ensure software engineering excellence (design principles and patterns, unit testing, performance engineering, best practices for security and privacy)
In Canada, for this role, our current base pay range for new hires is:
Canada: CA$172,800 - CA$225,600
Your background:
- 10+ years of experience designing/building enterprise-grade solutions using microservices
- Background in Java, Kotlin, Observability tools, and service operations
- In-depth knowledge of AWS offerings
- Experience building distributed systems for a SaaS product
- Passion and experience with recognizing, raising, and reconciling gaps and redundant efforts across organizations
- Success with cross-company collaboration
- Experience influencing and performance coaching engineers
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.
In Canada, for this role, our current base pay range for new hires is:
Canada: $172,800 CAD - $225,600 CAD
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
- 10+ years of experience designing and building enterprise-grade solutions using microservices
- Experience with Java
- Experience with Kotlin
- Experience with observability tools
- Experience with service operations
- In-depth knowledge of AWS offerings
- Experience building distributed systems for a SaaS product
- Experience recognizing, raising, and reconciling gaps and redundant efforts across organizations
- Success with cross-company collaboration
- Experience influencing and performance coaching engineers
Atlassian Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave spans 26 weeks for birthing parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents, alongside inclusive family-formation benefits such as fertility treatment, adoption, and surrogacy. Additional supports include menopause resources and caregiving-related programs.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a U.S. 401(k) company match with immediate vesting and multiple contribution options. These are complemented by other financial wellbeing tools like HSAs/FSAs.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical coverage is paired with mental-health resources, disability and life insurance, and options such as HSA/FSA. Descriptions also point to solid plan choices with access to counseling, coaching, and 24/7 support.
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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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