Principal Software Engineer

Engineering | Seattle, United States | Remote, Remote



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.

The Role

We're looking for product-minded Principal Engineers. This is a hands-on P60 individual-contributor role for engineers who sit at the seam between deep technical craft and sharp product judgment and can hold both at once. You'll own customer-facing products end to end across the full stack, shape what gets built rather than just how, and build the next generation of AI-native and agentic experiences used by teams all over the planet.

• Own customer-facing product features end to end across the full stack React/TypeScript front ends, backend services, and APIs taking ambiguous problems all the way to shipped, measured outcomes.
• Make architecture and technical decisions in service of user and business outcomes; let product goals drive the engineering, not the other way around.
• Use telemetry and user behavior to shape design define success metrics (north star and guardrails), instrument, monitor, run root-cause deep dives, and change your mind when the data says so.
• Design and build AI-enabled and agentic experiences, integrating LLMs and AI workflows into products that reach millions of users.
• Set technical direction for your team and influence product strategy, partnering closely with product managers, designers, and platform teams.
• Raise the engineering bar through code, design reviews, coaching, and mentoring leading by craft as a senior individual contributor.
• Find the highest-leverage problems in ambiguous spaces, prototype quickly, and drive prototypes to production-grade quality, reliability, and performance at scale.