Principal Backend Software Engineer

Working at Atlassian

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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.

What's the principal engineer role?

As an Engineer well into your career, we know you're an expert at what you do and have a breadth of experience across multiple backend technologies.

You take pride in being someone who more junior members look up to and sharing your expertise with others...

That's why we're placing a heavy emphasis on leaning on your expertise to take on a high level of responsibility while being a role model and mentor to others on the team.

In this role, you'll get the chance to:

Regularly tackle the largest and most complex problems on the team, from technical design to launch

Deliver solutions that are used by other teams and products

Determine plans-of-attack on large projects

Routinely tackle complex architecture challenges and apply architectural standards and start using them on new projects

Lead code reviews & documentation as well as take on complex bug fixes, especially on high-risk problems

Set the standard for thorough, meaningful code reviews

Partner across engineering teams to take on company-wide initiatives spanning multiple projects

Transfer your depth of knowledge from your current language to excel as a Software Engineer

Mentor more junior members

Qualifications Sound like an exciting opportunity?

We think so too...

In order to set you up for impact on day one, we'll expect you to have this on your first day:

Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in Computer science in a related technical field or similar experience

10+ years of experience in software development and architecture

Expert-level experience with one or more prominent languages such as Java, C# or C/C++ is crucial.