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Principal Full Stack Software Engineer

Atlassian

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

Atlassian is seeking a Principal Full Stack Software Engineer to improve engineering teams through growth-focused product work. The engineer will guide technical direction for large-scale features, collaborate across product, design, and engineering, and help deliver secure, reliable, maintainable software. The role also involves mentoring engineers and identifying opportunities to improve engineering practices and team effectiveness.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Java (Programming Language)KotlinMicroservicesAmazon Web ServicesDistributed ComputingLife CoachingObservability ToolsService OperationsAWSDistributed SystemsSaaS Product DevelopmentOrganizational Gap AnalysisCross-Company CollaborationPerformance Coaching

Qualifications

10+ Years Experience

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. We're looking for a Principal Fullstack Software Engineer to join our team, passionately focused on delivering creative improvements for our engineering teams.

Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

  • Understand the user journey and user funnel

  • Collaborate with product, design and engineering to influence product strategy and direction

  • You will guide the technical direction and implementation of large-scale product features

  • Evaluate trade-offs between correctness, robustness, performance and customer impact to ensure we build the right solution

  • Debug inefficiencies on the team and fix them

  • Ship well-tested, secure, reliable, and maintainable code while keeping our customers best interests in mind

  • Contribute to code reviews, documentation, and complex bug fixes with security, performance and reliability in mind

  • Mentor and level up the skills of your teammates by sharing your expertise

  • Improve the growth engineering team through mentoring

  • Identify blockers to ensure software engineering excellence (design principles and patterns, unit testing, performance engineering, best practices for security and privacy)

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 of experience designing/building enterprise-grade solutions using microservices

  • Background in Java, Kotlin, Observability tools, and service operations

  • In-depth knowledge of AWS offerings

  • Experience building distributed systems for a SaaS product

  • Passion and experience with recognizing, raising, and reconciling gaps and redundant efforts across organizations

  • Success with cross-company collaboration

  • Experience influencing and performance coaching engineers

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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