Senior Principal Software Engineer
Atlassian
Senior Principal Software Engineer
Job Description
Senior Principal Software Engineer
📋 Job Overview
The Senior Principal Software Engineer at Atlassian will lead a large team to tackle complex, broad-impact problems with a platform mindset. This role involves partnering across engineering teams on company-wide initiatives and working on architecture challenges to build scalable solutions that enhance productivity and earn customer trust.
📍 Location: Mountain View, United States or Remote (Remote/Hybrid)
🏢 Category: Engineering
📅 Posted: 2025-12-02 10:36 PM
🎯 Key Responsibilities
- Regularly tackle the largest and most complex problems on the team, from technical design to launch
- Partner across engineering teams to take on company-wide initiatives spanning multiple projects
- Routinely tackle complex architecture challenges and apply architectural standards, starting with new projects
- Work across senior engineering and product leaders to build strategy and design solutions to earn customers' trust and business
- Lead a large team of Principals to tackle some of the broadest impacting and technically complex problems with a platform mindset
- Collaborate across departments, linking technical solutions to business objectives, and enhancing productivity while maintaining operational quality
✅ Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- 10+ years of experience working as a senior Software Engineer
- 5+ years of experience acting as a Technical Lead for a team of engineers
- Experience with building scalable platforms
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, influence decision-making, and drive strategic initiatives across departments
- Proven ability and experience in being innovative and having measurable outcomes
- Strong leadership skills necessary for driving technical roadmaps, mentoring senior engineers, and leading design reviews across the organization
- Ability to tackle ambiguous and complex problems creatively, with a focus on maintaining high standards of technical excellence
⭐ Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in Identity Access Management Solutions
- Experience with AI/ML and Gen AI
- A background in consulting
🛠️ Required Skills
- Leadership
- Technical design
- Architecture
- Strategy building
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Productivity enhancement
- Operational quality maintenance
- Innovation
- Mentoring
- Design reviews
🎁 Benefits & Perks
- Health and wellbeing resources
- Paid volunteer days
- Wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community
Locations
- Mountain View, United States or Remote (Remote)
Salary
198,900 - 312,550 USD / yearly
Estimated Salary Rangemedium confidence
250,000 - 350,000 USD / yearly
Source: ai estimated
* This is an estimated range based on market data and may vary based on experience and qualifications.
Skills Required
- Leadershipintermediate
- Technical designintermediate
- Architectureintermediate
- Strategy buildingintermediate
- Cross-functional collaborationintermediate
- Productivity enhancementintermediate
- Operational quality maintenanceintermediate
- Innovationintermediate
- Mentoringintermediate
- Design reviewsintermediate
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent (experience)
- 10+ years of experience working as a senior Software Engineer (experience)
- 5+ years of experience acting as a Technical Lead for a team of engineers (experience)
- Experience with building scalable platforms (experience)
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, influence decision-making, and drive strategic initiatives across departments (experience)
- Proven ability and experience in being innovative and having measurable outcomes (experience)
- Strong leadership skills necessary for driving technical roadmaps, mentoring senior engineers, and leading design reviews across the organization (experience)
- Ability to tackle ambiguous and complex problems creatively, with a focus on maintaining high standards of technical excellence (experience)
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in Identity Access Management Solutions (experience)
- Experience with AI/ML and Gen AI (experience)
- A background in consulting (experience)
Responsibilities
- Regularly tackle the largest and most complex problems on the team, from technical design to launch
- Partner across engineering teams to take on company-wide initiatives spanning multiple projects
- Routinely tackle complex architecture challenges and apply architectural standards, starting with new projects
- Work across senior engineering and product leaders to build strategy and design solutions to earn customers' trust and business
- Lead a large team of Principals to tackle some of the broadest impacting and technically complex problems with a platform mindset
- Collaborate across departments, linking technical solutions to business objectives, and enhancing productivity while maintaining operational quality
Benefits
- general: Health and wellbeing resources
- general: Paid volunteer days
- general: Wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community
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Senior Principal Software Engineer
Atlassian
Senior Principal Software Engineer
Job Description
Senior Principal Software Engineer
📋 Job Overview
The Senior Principal Software Engineer at Atlassian will lead a large team to tackle complex, broad-impact problems with a platform mindset. This role involves partnering across engineering teams on company-wide initiatives and working on architecture challenges to build scalable solutions that enhance productivity and earn customer trust.
📍 Location: Mountain View, United States or Remote (Remote/Hybrid)
🏢 Category: Engineering
📅 Posted: 2025-12-02 10:36 PM
🎯 Key Responsibilities
- Regularly tackle the largest and most complex problems on the team, from technical design to launch
- Partner across engineering teams to take on company-wide initiatives spanning multiple projects
- Routinely tackle complex architecture challenges and apply architectural standards, starting with new projects
- Work across senior engineering and product leaders to build strategy and design solutions to earn customers' trust and business
- Lead a large team of Principals to tackle some of the broadest impacting and technically complex problems with a platform mindset
- Collaborate across departments, linking technical solutions to business objectives, and enhancing productivity while maintaining operational quality
✅ Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- 10+ years of experience working as a senior Software Engineer
- 5+ years of experience acting as a Technical Lead for a team of engineers
- Experience with building scalable platforms
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, influence decision-making, and drive strategic initiatives across departments
- Proven ability and experience in being innovative and having measurable outcomes
- Strong leadership skills necessary for driving technical roadmaps, mentoring senior engineers, and leading design reviews across the organization
- Ability to tackle ambiguous and complex problems creatively, with a focus on maintaining high standards of technical excellence
⭐ Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in Identity Access Management Solutions
- Experience with AI/ML and Gen AI
- A background in consulting
🛠️ Required Skills
- Leadership
- Technical design
- Architecture
- Strategy building
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Productivity enhancement
- Operational quality maintenance
- Innovation
- Mentoring
- Design reviews
🎁 Benefits & Perks
- Health and wellbeing resources
- Paid volunteer days
- Wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community
Locations
- Mountain View, United States or Remote (Remote)
Salary
198,900 - 312,550 USD / yearly
Estimated Salary Rangemedium confidence
250,000 - 350,000 USD / yearly
Source: ai estimated
* This is an estimated range based on market data and may vary based on experience and qualifications.
Skills Required
- Leadershipintermediate
- Technical designintermediate
- Architectureintermediate
- Strategy buildingintermediate
- Cross-functional collaborationintermediate
- Productivity enhancementintermediate
- Operational quality maintenanceintermediate
- Innovationintermediate
- Mentoringintermediate
- Design reviewsintermediate
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent (experience)
- 10+ years of experience working as a senior Software Engineer (experience)
- 5+ years of experience acting as a Technical Lead for a team of engineers (experience)
- Experience with building scalable platforms (experience)
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, influence decision-making, and drive strategic initiatives across departments (experience)
- Proven ability and experience in being innovative and having measurable outcomes (experience)
- Strong leadership skills necessary for driving technical roadmaps, mentoring senior engineers, and leading design reviews across the organization (experience)
- Ability to tackle ambiguous and complex problems creatively, with a focus on maintaining high standards of technical excellence (experience)
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in Identity Access Management Solutions (experience)
- Experience with AI/ML and Gen AI (experience)
- A background in consulting (experience)
Responsibilities
- Regularly tackle the largest and most complex problems on the team, from technical design to launch
- Partner across engineering teams to take on company-wide initiatives spanning multiple projects
- Routinely tackle complex architecture challenges and apply architectural standards, starting with new projects
- Work across senior engineering and product leaders to build strategy and design solutions to earn customers' trust and business
- Lead a large team of Principals to tackle some of the broadest impacting and technically complex problems with a platform mindset
- Collaborate across departments, linking technical solutions to business objectives, and enhancing productivity while maintaining operational quality
Benefits
- general: Health and wellbeing resources
- general: Paid volunteer days
- general: Wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community
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