Senior Principal Engineer

Working at Atlassian

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Atlassian is looking for experienced architects and senior engineers to join our Cloud Readiness team. This role involves the design, implementation, and operations of the services to strengthen the enterprise readiness of our cloud. Be a part of a dynamic team that delivers incredible, creative improvements to our products. You'll collaborate often with other developers to write the best code for the project and deliver amazing results that our users love. You would not be afraid to speak your mind even if it is blasphemy for other engineers. We are looking for that elusive person who is pragmatic and surefooted even in dark.

This position would work across the ~70 member development team building the products and solutions for large enterprise customers, as well as collaborate with architects across Atlassian to implement enterprise controls and policies.

On their first day, we'll expect the candidates to have:

• Broad experience architecting, designing, and building large-scale distributed systems.
• Broad knowledge and understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS with hands-on experience of one or more public cloud offerings (ideally AWS)
• At least 4 years of experience in crafting and implementing high-volume, low latency distributed systems
• 10+ years of experience building software, with 4+ years in an architect role working across teams
• Fluency in any modern object-oriented programming language (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Python, Javascript, go etc.) and in architecture patterns for distributed systems
• A real passion for collaboration and has strong interpersonal skills supported by eloquently written communication
• Able to drive the long term vision and strategy
• Strong understanding of Enterprise Customers
• Experience in operational requirements and common challenges of cloud-based systems
• Adept at working with remote teams (peers, or customers)

It's great, but not required if you have:

• Experience in building public facing data format for SaaS
• Experience in customer facing data life cycle management capabilities

Compensation

At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. To support this goal, the baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range, but in turn we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidate's skills, expertise, or experience. 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: $239,400 - $312,550

Zone B: $216,000 - $282,000

Zone C: $198,900 - $259,675

This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.

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.

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.

Client-provided location(s): Seattle, WA, Flexible / Remote, Austin, TX, Mountain View, CA

Job ID: Atlassian-23539

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2026-01-01T19:10:57