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Principal Full Stack Software Engineer

Atlassian

On-site
Vancouver, BC
Full-time
Principal
10+ yrs
$173k–$226kPosted 57m ago

Real job — pulled straight from Atlassian’s careers page · Verified October 1, 2026 · No reposts.

Job description

Atlassian is hiring a Principal Full Stack Software Engineer — a full-time, based in Vancouver, BC role ($173k–$226k). Apply directly on Atlassian's careers page below.

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)

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

Compensation

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.

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.

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: $172,800 CAD - $225,600 CAD

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.

In line with local law, identity verification (which may include use of biometric data) is a condition of employment with Atlassian for employment fraud purposes.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the salary for Principal Full Stack Software Engineer at Atlassian?

The estimated salary range for Principal Full Stack Software Engineer at Atlassian is $173,000 - $226,000 USD per year.

What skills are required for Principal Full Stack Software Engineer at Atlassian?

The required skills for Principal Full Stack Software Engineer at Atlassian include: Java, Kotlin, AWS, Microservices.

What is the seniority level for Principal Full Stack Software Engineer at Atlassian?

Principal Full Stack Software Engineer at Atlassian is a Principal level position.

How do I apply for Principal Full Stack Software Engineer at Atlassian?

You can view the full description and apply for Principal Full Stack Software Engineer at Atlassian on EchoJobs: https://echojobs.io/job/atlassian-principal-full-stack-software-engineer-vancouver-canada-4afr7.