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Senior Software Engineer
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.
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.
Responsibilities
What You'll Do:
- Drive large complex projects autonomously from technical design to launch
- Tackle complex architecture challenges 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
- Be an example for thorough meaningful code reviews
- Partner across engineering teams to tackle company-wide initiatives spanning multiple projects
- Transfer your depth of knowledge from your current language to excel as a Java developer.
- Mentor junior members of the team
At Atlassian we strive to design equitable explainable and competitive compensation programs. We follow consistent hiring practices and account for each candidate's skills knowledge and experience when setting base pay within the range.
Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.
This role may also be eligible for benefits bonuses commissions and equity.
In The United States we have three geographic pay zones. For this role our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:
Zone A: $180000 - $235000
Zone B: $162000 - $211500
Zone C: $149400 - $195050
Qualifications Your Background:
- 5+ years experience building and developing backend applications. We're building a self hosted database.
- Own reliability and correctness of distributed systems
- Define and improve SLOs/SLIs incident response on-call health and post-incident remediation for tier-1 services
- Bachelor's or Master's degree with a preference for Computer Science degree - Senior-level experience with one or more prominent languages such as Java Python Kotlin Go or Scala is required.
- Understanding of SaaS PaaS IaaS industry with hands-on experience with public cloud offerings (e.g. AWS GCP Azure)
- Fluency in any one database technology (TiDB Postgres Kafka)
- Experience crafting and implementing well-tested highly scalable and performant micro-services and/or other distributed systems
- Knowledge to evaluate trade-offs between correctness robustness performance space and time
- Practice in mentoring other engineers and influencing decision makers throughout the organization -
- 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 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 .
In line with local law identity verification (which may include use of biometric data) is a condition of employment with Atlassian for employment fraud purposes.
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Atlassian Compensation & Benefits Highlights
- Parental & Family Support—Parental leave is described as generous for both birthing and non‑birthing parents with inclusive family‑formation coverage spanning fertility adoption and surrogacy. Additional caregiving resources such as breastmilk shipping and neurodiverse family support reinforce a family‑first approach.
- Healthcare Strength—Health coverage is characterized as comprehensive pairing major medical plans with extensive mental‑health services. Benefits also include support for abortion travel transgender care and complex mental‑health needs.
- Leave & Time Off Breadth—Time off is framed as flexible with ample PTO multiple leave programs and five paid volunteer days annually. Sabbaticals and donation matching add further headroom for rest and purpose.
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Atlassian creates teamwork solutions for high-performing teams. Our portfolio of collaboration and work management software products includes Jira Confluence Trello Loom and Rovo. More than 300000 businesses worldwide rely on Atlassian’s technology including 80 percent of Fortune 500 companies. Our solutions support various business teams and they help organizations plan track and deliver their biggest ideas together.
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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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