Principal Software Engineer

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Bengaluru, Karnataka
7+ Years Experience
Cloud • Information Technology • Productivity • Security • Software • App development • Automation
Atlassian provides tools to help every team unleash their full potential.
The Role
Principal Software Engineer at Atlassian working on transforming Issue Experiences for Jira Cloud customers. Responsibilities include building scalable user interface systems, leading code reviews, mentoring engineers, and driving project success.
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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. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.
Our office is in Bengaluru, but we offer flexibility for eligible candidates to work remotely across India. Whatever your preference - working from home, an office, or in between - you can choose the place that's best for your work and your lifestyle.
Your future team
Atlassian Jira Issue Teams are on a journey to transform Issue Experiences for our customers. The team's mission is to improve the New Issue Experience for Jira Cloud customers, making it not only easier to use but also more performant and reliable. We are at the core owning all of the Jira Issue Experiences which are the most-viewed pages in the Jira Cloud suite of products (Jira Software, Jira Service Management, Jira Work Management, plus more). You'll work as part of a high-energy team(s) delivering features and creative improvements to delight the customers.
What you'll do:

  • Build client code that is fast, testable, scalable, and high quality
  • Plan build, and implement scalable user interface systems that delight users
  • Have product engineering mindset and come up with innovative ways to solve customer problem
  • Collaborate with other engineers, designers and managers to understand user pain points and refine great solutions
  • Lead code reviews and documentation, and take on complex bug fixes
  • Drive the success of projects, from the technical design, implementation, and launch to operation
  • Onboard and mentor other engineers


  • Bachelor's degree with a preference for Computer Science degree
  • 12+ years of experience building large-scale frontend applications
  • Understanding of modern frontend ecosystem, including bundling, linting, testing and releasing.
  • Experience with Javascript (ES6), HTML5, CSS and experience with modern Javascript frameworks (e.g., React, AngularJS, Vue).
  • Experience designing/architecting platforms at scale.
  • System mindset that considers edge cases, observability, error handling, and integration across external systems.
  • Experience debugging problems across systems/repositories and designing solutions that span the whole stack.
  • Experience with modern testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, Cypress, Mocha, Chai).
  • Experience in Agile software development methodologies.
  • You aim to write code that lasts for years, not months.
  • Experience engineering software systems of medium-to-large scope and complexity.
  • Experience mentoring more junior engineers.

Top Skills

CSS
HTML5
JavaScript
The Company
Bengaluru
11,000 Employees
Remote Workplace
Year Founded: 2012

What We Do

Atlassian builds software that empowers everyone from small startups to government and education to the who’s who of tech. We build tools like Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Trello, and OpsGenie to help teams across the world become more nimble, creative, and aligned — collaboration continues to drive the heart of every product we dream up.

Why Work With Us

At Atlassian, we believe we can accomplish so much more together than apart — which is why everything from our tooling — to our distributed workforce — to how our teams are structured is rooted in collaboration. Come join us and help unleash the potential of every team.

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