Principal Full Stack Software Engineer - Canada
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 13, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 9, 2026.
Working at Atlassian
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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.
Responsibilities
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)
Qualifications
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 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 .
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