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# Principal Full Stack Software Engineer

- **Company:** Atlassian
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $209,700.0 - $273,775.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Unit Testing, Software Bug Management, Software as a Service, Code Review, Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, Software Engineering, Grafana, Kotlin, Microservices
- **Published:** October 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/principal-full-stack-software-engineer-san-francisco-ca--754132b5-3809-4397-8a0b-e8c6f17f471f

## About the Role

Software Engineering, Legal, Software Engineering, Product Strategy, Technical/Engineering Design, Strategic Planning, Product Design, Code Reviews, Documentation, Mentoring, * 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

## Description

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)