Principal Software Engineer

About This Role

This engineering role focuses on tackling the largest and most complex problems within the team, from initial technical design through to launch. It involves providing technical leadership on high-impact projects, addressing complex architecture challenges, and championing high technical standards across the organization. The role also includes partnering with other engineering teams on company-wide initiatives and mentoring the next generation of technical leaders.

Responsibilities

• 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 organization 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

Requirements

• 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

Benefits

• Health and wellbeing resources
• Paid volunteer days

About the Company

Atlassian is motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Its software products help teams all over the planet and its solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through its tools makes what may be impossible alone, possible together. Atlassian is 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 its customers' transition to the cloud while consistently delivering maximum value through its core product suite - Jira, Confluence, Trello, and Bitbucket.