Principal Full Stack Software Engineer responsible for guiding technical direction, designing large-scale SaaS features, and building secure, reliable distributed systems. The role involves collaborating across product, design, and engineering; evaluating technical trade-offs; debugging team inefficiencies; contributing to code reviews and complex fixes; mentoring engineers; and improving engineering practices around testing, performance, security, privacy, and service operations.
Engineering | Canada, Canada | Remote, Remote
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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.
We're looking for a Principal Fullstack Software Engineer to join our team, passionately focused on delivering creative improvements for our engineering teams. Note: We are looking to hiring in Vancouver, Canada and Canada for this position.
In this role, you will:
At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. We follow consistent hiring practices and account for each candidate's skills, knowledge, and experience when setting base pay within the range.
This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
In Canada, for this role, our current base pay range for new hires is:
Canada: CA$172,800 - CA$225,600
Your background:
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
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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.
We're looking for a Principal Fullstack Software Engineer to join our team, passionately focused on delivering creative improvements for our engineering teams. Note: We are looking to hiring in Vancouver, Canada and Canada for this position.
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)
At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. We follow consistent hiring practices and account for each candidate's skills, knowledge, and experience when setting base pay within the range.
This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
In Canada, for this role, our current base pay range for new hires is:
Canada: CA$172,800 - CA$225,600
Your background:
- 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
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
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