Senior Backend Software Engineer

Overview

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.

Responsibilities

Team: Core Engineering Reliability Team

What You'll Do

• Design, develop, and maintain robust backend systems and components focused on proactive and reactive incident management and post-incident management.
• Be part of an amazing open and collaborative work environment with other experienced engineers, process engineers, architects, and TPMs.
• Review code with best practices of readability, testing patterns, documentation, reliability, security, and performance considerations in mind
• Leverage data to generate actionable insights that drive continuous improvements in backend performance and incident management processes.
• Mentor and level up the skills of your teammates by sharing your expertise in formal and informal knowledge sharing sessions
• Ensure full visibility, error reporting, and monitoring of high performing backend services
• Participate in Agile software development including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, team retrospectives, show and tell demo sessions
  
  
  

Qualifications

Your background

• 6+ years of experience building and developing backend applications
• Bachelor's or Master's degree with a preference for Computer Science degree
• Experience crafting and implementing highly scalable and performant RESTful micro-services
• Proficiency in any modern object-oriented programming language (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Go, Scala, Python, etc.)
• Fluency in any one database technology (e.g. RDBMS like Oracle or Postgres and/or NoSQL like DynamoDB or Cassandra)
• Demonstrated ability to design and operate systems that deliver high availability and unwavering reliability for our customers.
• Real passion for collaboration and strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Broad knowledge and understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS industry with hands-on experience of public cloud offerings (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Familiarity with cloud architecture patterns and an engineering discipline to produce software with quality