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Principal Full Stack Software Engineer

Atlassian

  • San Francisco, CA
  • Posted today
  • Full-time
  • Remote

At a glance

Atlassian is hiring a Principal Full Stack Software Engineer in San Francisco, CA. It is a full-time fully remote role in Software & IT, asking for at least 10 years of experience, first listed on November 2. The description mentions Microservices, Java, Kotlin and AWS. Atlassian has 99 other openings in the US, 72 of them in San Francisco, CA. Across all employers on USA Jobs 24 there are 724 Software & IT openings in San Francisco, CA today; the typical one asks for 6 years and advertises about $231,000 a year at the midpoint.

MicroservicesJavaKotlinAWS

About this role

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)

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.

USA Jobs 24 copied this listing from Atlassian's official careers site on November 2, 2026 and checked it again November 2, 5:17 AM ET. Atlassian will never ask you to pay to apply or to buy equipment with a check they send you. If anyone does, it is a scam.

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