As a Principal Software Engineer at Atlassian, you will design and enhance large-scale distributed systems, mentor teams, and collaborate with cross-functional groups.
Working at Atlassian
Atlassians can choose where they work - whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. 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. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.
Do you love building tools for software engineering teams? Come work with us as a Principal Engineer on Bitbucket Cloud. You'll be part of an experienced team that shapes how millions of developers collaborate, manage, and ship their code. 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 working across teams to deliver transformational solutions that scale. You enjoy working with other Principals and sharing your expertise with others. On Bitbucket, you'll get to work across systems, services, and teams to solve the unique challenges of distributed version control and developer tools.
On your first day, we'll expect you to have:
It's great, but not required, if you have:
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: $206,100 - $269,075
Zone B: $186,300 - $243,225
Zone C: $171,900 - $224,425
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 .
Atlassians can choose where they work - whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. 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. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.
Do you love building tools for software engineering teams? Come work with us as a Principal Engineer on Bitbucket Cloud. You'll be part of an experienced team that shapes how millions of developers collaborate, manage, and ship their code. 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 working across teams to deliver transformational solutions that scale. You enjoy working with other Principals and sharing your expertise with others. On Bitbucket, you'll get to work across systems, services, and teams to solve the unique challenges of distributed version control and developer tools.
On your first day, we'll expect you to have:
- Proficient in Python, Java, or Go
- Experienced in designing, implementing, and improving large-scale distributed systems
- 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
- Collaborate with product, design and engineering to influence product strategy and direction
- Ship well-tested, secure, reliable, and maintainable code while keeping our customers best interests in mind
- Experienced in coaching and mentoring teammates. Level up the skills of your teammates by sharing your expertise
- Practices operational excellence, including monitoring, incident response, and blameless post-incident reviews.
- Strong collaboration and interpersonal skills.
- Enthusiastic about learning new technologies, languages, and frameworks.
- Experience with building and deploying microservice architectures.
- Experience designing and operating high-traffic services on cloud PaaS (AWS, Azure) with frameworks (Kubernetes, Docker)
It's great, but not required, if you have:
- Experience hosting Git or other version control systems.
- Experience working with deep learning-based models and working on LLM-related applications
- Experience with PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis, Memcached, Kubernetes
- Unix programming experience, working with network-mounted filesystems (NFS, autoFS)
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: $206,100 - $269,075
Zone B: $186,300 - $243,225
Zone C: $171,900 - $224,425
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 .
Top Skills
AWS
Azure
Docker
DynamoDB
Go
Java
Kubernetes
Memcached
Postgres
Python
Redis
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