Atlassian
Principal Software Engineer
$174K–$274K
Seattle, United States +1 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Location
- Seattle, United States
Remote, Remote - Experience
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience across frontend and backend domains, or a Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline with equivalent practical experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline with equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Owns customer-facing, full-stack products end to end, shaping product direction and building AI-enabled and agentic experiences at scale.
What you'll do
- Build and ship frontend features, backend services, and APIs; measure outcomes using telemetry and user behavior.
- Design AI-enabled and agentic product experiences by integrating LLMs and AI workflows.
- Set technical direction, lead cross-team initiatives, and raise engineering quality through reviews, coaching, and mentoring.
What they ask for
- Deep hands-on expertise building scalable, accessible, performant web applications with JavaScript/TypeScript and frameworks such as React.
- Experience designing and maintaining high-throughput backend services and microservices.
- Strong foundation in cloud architectures, distributed data stores, event-driven architectures, caching, and REST/GraphQL APIs.
- Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, production telemetry, service reliability, and technical leadership.
Pay
$209,700 - $273,775 USD base salary; $188,730 - $246,398 USD base salary; $174,051 - $227,233 USD base salary
Tools
React, TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, Kotlin, Node.js, Go, Python
AI focus
Design and build AI-enabled and agentic experiences, integrating LLMs and AI workflows into products used by millions.
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