Senior Principal Software Engineer - FedRAMP

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Hiring Remotely in San Francisco, CA
In-Office or Remote
199K-313K Annually
Senior level
Cloud • Information Technology • Productivity • Security • Software • App development • Automation
Atlassian provides tools to help every team unleash their full potential.
The Role
The Senior Principal Software Engineer will tackle complex problems, lead a large team, partner across departments, and apply architectural standards for scalable solutions.
Summary Generated by Built In
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. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.
What's the Senior Principal Engineer role? As an engineer well into your career, we know you're an expert at what you do and have a breadth of experience across multiple backend technologies. You take pride in working across departments to deliver transformational solutions that scale an entire company. You enjoy working with other Principals and more junior members look up to and sharing your expertise with others... That's why we're placing a heavy emphasis on leaning on your expertise to take on a high level of responsibility while being a role model and mentor to others on the team.
In this role, you'll get the chance to:
  • Regularly tackle the largest and most complex problems on the team, from technical design to launch
  • Partner across engineering teams to take on company-wide initiatives spanning multiple projects
  • Routinely tackle complex architecture challenges and apply architectural standards and start using them on new projects
  • Work across senior engineering and product leaders to build strategy and design solutions to earn customers trust and business
  • Lead a large team of Principals to tackle some of the broadest impacting and technically complex problems with a platform mindset

  1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
  2. 10+ years of experience working as senior Software Engineer.
  3. 5+ years of experience acting as Technical Lead for a team of engineers.
  4. Experience in supporting compliance environments related to FedRAMP, DoD, or mature compliance offerings at large scale tech companies.

Compensation
At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. To support this goal, the baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range, but in turn we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidate's skills, expertise, or experience. 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: $239,400 - $312,550
Zone B: $216,000 - $282,000
Zone C: $198,900 - $259,675
This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
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.
Our perks & benefits
Atlassian offers a variety of perks and benefits to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health coverage, paid volunteer days, wellness resources, and so much more. Visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits to learn more.
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 .

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The Company
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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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