Senior Principal Software Engineer - FedRAMP
Company: Atlassian
Location: San Francisco, CA (Remote)
Salary: $216k - $312.6k per year
Type: Full-time
Level: Senior
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-02-10
About this role
Overview
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.
Responsibilities
What's the Senior 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 working across departments to deliver transformational solutions that scale an entire company. You enjoy working with other Principals and 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
- Partner across engineering teams to take on company-wide initiatives spanning multiple projects
- Routinely tackle complex architecture challenges and apply architectural standards and start using them on new projects
- Work across senior engineering and product leaders to build strategy and design solutions to earn customers trust and business
- Lead a large team of Principals to tackle some of the broadest impacting and technically complex problems with a platform mindset
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
- 10+ years of experience working as senior Software Engineer.
- 5+ years of experience acting as Technical Lead for a team of engineers.
- Experience in supporting compliance environments related to FedRAMP, DoD, or mature compliance offerings at large scale tech companies.
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