Principal Software Engineer

Atlassian develops software products that help teams collaborate and work more effectively. The company is seeking a product-minded Principal Software Engineer to own customer-facing products across the full stack, develop AI-enabled and agentic experiences, and guide technical and product strategy. The role also involves using telemetry to improve products, mentoring engineers, and driving ambiguous prototypes to reliable, scalable production systems.

Responsibilities:

• Own customer-facing product features end to end across the full stack — React/TypeScript front ends, backend services, and APIs — taking ambiguous problems all the way to shipped, measured outcomes
• Make architecture and technical decisions in service of user and business outcomes; let product goals drive the engineering, not the other way around
• Use telemetry and user behavior to shape design — define success metrics (north star and guardrails), instrument, monitor, run root-cause deep dives, and change your mind when the data says so
• Design and build AI-enabled and agentic experiences, integrating LLMs and AI workflows into products that reach millions of users
• Set technical direction for your team and influence product strategy, partnering closely with product managers, designers, and platform teams
• Raise the engineering bar through code, design reviews, coaching, and mentoring — leading by craft as a senior individual contributor
• Find the highest-leverage problems in ambiguous spaces, prototype quickly, and drive prototypes to production-grade quality, reliability, and performance at scale