Principal Software Engineer

Posted 22 Days Ago
Hiring Remotely in Seattle, WA, USA
In-Office or Remote
174K-274K Annually
Entry level
Cloud • Information Technology • Productivity • Security • Software • App development • Automation
Atlassian provides tools to help every team unleash their full potential.
The Role
Own customer-facing features end to end across React/TypeScript front ends, backend services, and APIs. Make product-driven architecture decisions, use telemetry to improve outcomes, and build AI-enabled and agentic experiences with LLMs. Set technical direction, influence product strategy, mentor engineers, and drive ambiguous prototypes into reliable, scalable production systems.
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Engineering | Seattle, United States | Remote, Remote
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 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.
Responsibilities
  • 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.
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Skills Required

  • Hands-on experience owning customer-facing products or features end to end across the full stack
  • Experience with React and TypeScript front-end development
  • Experience building backend services and APIs
  • Experience designing and building AI-enabled or agentic product experiences
  • Experience integrating LLMs and AI workflows into products
  • Ability to make architecture and technical decisions based on user and business outcomes
  • Experience using telemetry, user behavior, instrumentation, and success metrics to guide product decisions
  • Ability to set technical direction and influence product strategy
  • Experience mentoring engineers and leading through code and design reviews
  • Experience delivering reliable, performant, production-grade systems at scale

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Atlassian Compensation & Benefits Highlights

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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The Company
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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