Atlassian
Principal Full Stack Software Engineer
$174K–$274K
San Francisco, United States +2 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, United States
Remote, Remote
Canada, Canada - Experience
- 10+ years.
About the job
Leads technical direction and delivery of large-scale product features while improving engineering team effectiveness through collaboration, mentoring, and reliable software practices.
What you'll do
- Guide technical direction and implementation of large-scale product features, balancing correctness, robustness, performance, and customer impact.
- Collaborate across product, design, and engineering to influence product strategy; identify and address team inefficiencies and blockers.
- Ship secure, reliable, maintainable code and support code reviews, documentation, complex bug fixes, and teammate development.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of experience designing and building enterprise-grade solutions using microservices.
- Background in Java, Kotlin, observability tools, and service operations.
- In-depth knowledge of AWS offerings and experience building distributed systems for a SaaS product.
- Experience influencing and performance-coaching engineers.
Nice to have
- Experience recognizing and reconciling gaps and redundant efforts across organizations.
- Success with cross-company collaboration.
Pay
$209,700 - $273,775 USD base salary; $188,730 - $246,398 USD base salary; $174,051 - $227,233 USD base salary; CA$172,800 - CA$225,600 CAD base salary
Tools
Java, Kotlin, AWS, microservices
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