Principal Backend Software Engineer

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Responsibilities
Whats the principal engineer role As an Engineer well into your career, we know youre an expert at what you do and have a breadth of experience across multiple backend technologies. You take pride in being someone who more junior members look up to and sharing your expertise with others... Thats why were 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, youll get the chance to:

• Regularly tackle the largest and most complex problems on the team, from technical design to launch

• Deliver solutions that are used by other teams and products

• Determine plans-of-attack on large projects

• Routinely tackle complex architecture challenges and apply architectural standards and start using them on new projects

• Lead code reviews & documentation as well as take on complex bug fixes, especially on high-risk problems

• Set the standard for thorough, meaningful code reviews

• Partner across engineering teams to take on company-wide initiatives spanning multiple projects

• Transfer your depth of knowledge from your current language to excel as a Software Engineer

• Mentor more junior members

Qualifications
Sound like an exciting opportunity We think so too... In order to set you up for impact on day one, well expect you to have this on your first day:

• Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in Computer science in a related technical field or similar experience

• 10+ years of experience in software development and architecture

• Expert-level experience with one or more prominent languages such as Java, C# or C/C++ is crucial.

• An expert in at least one technical topic/domain

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  Get Hired

• Passion for collaborating with and mentoring junior members of the team

• A real appetite for helping others learn and grow

• Considers the customer impact when making technical decisions

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 .

About Atlassian

At Atlassian, were 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 everyones 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.

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