Principal Software Engineer
Content + Source + Freshness • 17 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
Strong value score reflecting the significance of software engineering leadership and the chance to work on innovative projects.
- Lead innovative projects in cloud software engineering.
- Flexible working conditions accommodating personal preferences.
- Requires significant experience and adaptability.
Pros
- Leadership opportunity in developing cutting-edge cloud solutions.
- Flexible work arrangements tailored to employee preferences.
- Potential to mentor junior engineers and shape team dynamics.
Cons
- High expectations for technical expertise across multiple domains.
- Pressure to meet project deadlines and deliver high-quality solutions.
- Collaboration with remote teams can introduce communication challenges.
Who it's for
Senior / Principal • Remote / flexible location
Good fit
- Senior software engineers with cloud expertise
- Technical mentors looking to influence team dynamics
- Innovators prepared to tackle complex engineering tasks.
Not recommended for
- Entry-level developers lacking leadership experience
- Those averse to variable work environments.
- Candidates who prefer routine tasks without ambiguity.
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
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.
We are working on a greenfield storage platform built on top of Kubernetes and PostgreSQL. This ambitious project will support hundreds of millions of databases around the globe with high availability and performance. As a Principal engineer, you’ll be responsible for designing and delivering solutions to our most complex problems while mentoring other engineers around you.
Your future team
To become a 100 year company, we need a world-class engineering organisation made up of empowered teams who have the tools and infrastructure to do the best work of their careers. As a part of a unified R&D team, Engineering is prioritising key initiatives which support our customers in moving to cloud while simultaneously continuing to bring the most value to our customers through investments across our core product suite – such as Jira, Confluence, Trello, and Bitbucket. We're looking for people who want to write the future and who believe that we can accomplish so much more together. You will report to one of the Engineering Managers of the R&D teams.
What you'll do
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
Your background
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, Kotlin, or Go is crucial.
An expert in Kubernetes stateful sets and/or databases such as PostgreSQL.
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
Our perks & benefits
Atlassian offers a variety of perks and benefits to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health coverage, paid volunteer days, wellness resources, and so much more. Visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits to learn more.
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.
