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Principal Fullstack Software Engineer

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San Francisco, CAJob$210–274K/yrPosted 2w agoStill listed today

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Compensation
$210–274K/yr
Location
San Francisco, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Principal Fullstack Software Engineer tackles complex technical and architectural problems, leads high-impact projects, and advances engineering standards across Atlassian. The role partners with engineering teams on company-wide initiatives, shares engineering practices, and mentors future technical leaders. Atlassians may choose to work in an office, from home, or a combination of the two.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Full Stack Software EngineeringJavaScript (Programming Language)React.jsJava (Programming Language)KotlinScala (Programming Language)Node.JsSystems EngineeringUnit TestingReliabilityGeneral SecurityInterpersonal CommunicationsMentorshipA/B TestingFull Stack DevelopmentReactTestingSecurityObservabilityWritten CommunicationVerbal CommunicationMentoringCustomer Impact Assessment

Qualifications

10+ Years Full Stack ExperienceBachelor's or Master's or EquivalentComputer Science Degree

Benefits

Medical Insurance

Full job description

Overview

Working at Atlassian 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.

Responsibilities

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

Compensation

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.

Pay Ranges

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 In Canada, for this role, our current base pay range for new hires is: Canada: CA$172,800 - CA$225,600

Qualifications

Your background

  • 10+ years experience in Full Stack development with one or more prominent languages such as Javascript, React, Java, Kotlin, Scala, Node, etc.

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree (preferably a Computer Science degree or equivalent experience).

  • Strong preference for candidates located in or aligned with the Pacific Time (PT) zone.

  • 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 & 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.

How this job compares

Set against the 40,832 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$210–274K/yr
  • California median$165–246K/yr7,688 salary ranges
  • US median$135–218K/yr32,472 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $242K, is 18% above the California median midpoint ($205K) — in the middle half of Software Engineer salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 9,560 open Software Engineer jobs in California and 40,832 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience — more than three in four Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 33,318 postings).
Education
14,022 of the 40,832 open Software Engineer jobs (34%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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