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The Role
Principal Software Engineer responsible for owning customer-facing products end to end, leading technical strategy, architecting large-scale distributed systems, and delivering AI-native experiences. The role involves full-stack implementation, product strategy, system design, code reviews, reliability, testing, telemetry, security, performance, and mentoring engineers. Candidates must have extensive experience building and operating large-scale systems and strong product, UX, communication, and collaboration skills.
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Engineering | San Francisco, United States | Remote, Remote | Seattle, United States | New York, United States | Canada, Canada
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:
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.
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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.
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
- 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
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.
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Skills Required
- 10+ years of full-stack experience in product and platform engineering
- Experience architecting, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems and user-facing applications
- Experience establishing operational excellence and automated testing strategies
- Experience with production telemetry and managing service reliability
- Strong product and UX mindset
- Exceptional communication and collaboration skills
- Ability to influence and partner across teams and organizations toward business outcomes
- Passion for innovation, continuous improvement, mentorship, and fostering an inclusive, high-performing engineering environment
What the Team is Saying
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Atlassian Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is portrayed as particularly generous, with 26 weeks for birthing parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents, plus broad family-formation assistance such as fertility, adoption, and surrogacy support. Coverage also extends to resources like neurodiverse family support and related care.
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Retirement Support — The 401(k) program for U.S. employees includes a 4% company match with immediate vesting, which is highlighted as a clear financial advantage. Plan features are described as accessible alongside standard contribution options.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Mental-health resources (counseling, coaching, digital programs, and crisis support) and lifestyle allowances (such as a Flex Wallet and remote-work stipends) are emphasized as part of a holistic package. Flexible working arrangements and ergonomic support underpin the distributed “Team Anywhere” model.
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The Company
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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