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Principal Full Stack Software Engineer

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In-Office or Remote
Hiring Remotely in San Francisco, CA
174K-274K Annually
Expert/Leader
In-Office or Remote
Hiring Remotely in San Francisco, CA
174K-274K Annually
Expert/Leader
Lead complex full-stack engineering initiatives from technical design through launch. Provide architectural and technical leadership, establish engineering standards, partner across teams on company-wide projects, mentor engineers, and improve reliability, security, testing, observability, and overall engineering excellence. The role is fully remote within the United States.
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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.
To help our teams work together effectively, this role is fully remote, but requires you to be located in United States .
We're looking for a Principal Full Stack Software Engineer to join our team, passionately focused on delivering creative improvements for our engineering teams.
Your future team
To be a 100-year company, we are proudly building a world-class engineering organization composed of empowered teams that are equipped with the tools and infrastructure to do the best work of their careers.
Engineering at Atlassian prioritizes initiatives that advance AI and support our customers' transition to the cloud while consistently delivering maximum value through our core product suite - Jira, Confluence, Trello, and Bitbucket.
We seek individuals who are eager to shape the future and believe in the power of collaboration to achieve extraordinary results together.
In this role, you will:
  • Regularly tackle the largest and most complex problems on the team, from technical design to launch
  • Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects and determine plans-of-attack on large projects
  • Routinely tackle complex architecture challenges and apply architectural standards and start using them on new projects
  • Be a champion across the Atlassian organisation for continually raising the technical bar and evangelizing a high technical standard
  • Partner across Engineering teams to take on company-wide initiatives spanning multiple projects
  • Transfer your depth of knowledge and share best engineering practices to improve engineering excellence
  • Mentor and grow the next generation of technical leaders at Atlassian

Your background:
  • 10+ years experience in Full Stack development with one or more prominent languages such as Java, Scala, Node, Javascript, React.
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree (preferably a Computer Science degree or equivalent experience).
  • Deep experience in systems engineering at scale with regards to testing, reliability, security, and observability.
  • Excellent communication skills in written and verbal forms, and an ability to communicate complex technical issues to a range of technical and non-technical audiences (management, peers).
  • Experience with collaborating with and mentoring junior members of the team.
  • Consider the customer impact when making technical decisions.
  • Familiarity with A/B testing techniques.

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
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.

Atlassian Austin, Texas, USA Office

Atlassian believes the future of work is distributed and offers our people the flexibility to help them do what’s important to them. And with few exceptions, we hire people anywhere we have a legal entity as long as they have eligible work rights and sufficient team time zone overlap.

Atlassian Austin, Texas, USA Office

303 Colorado St , Austin, TX, United States, 78701

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