Software Engineer

Atlassian

Software Engineer

Posted 9 Hours Ago

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Hiring Remotely in Seattle WA USA

In-Office or Remote

123K-193K Annually

Mid level

Cloud • Information Technology • Productivity • Security • Software • App development • Automation

Atlassian provides tools to help every team unleash their full potential.

The Role

Backend engineer building data-heavy distributed streaming platforms. Design and operate resilient high-throughput low-latency pipelines using JVM languages and streaming systems. Deploy and run services across cloud providers use cloud primitives and infrastructure-as-code and take ownership of delivery while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

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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.
Technical Skills:

Strong backend engineering experience with JVM-based languages (Java Kotlin preferred)
Experience with data-heavy platforms and streaming architectures - Hands-on work with technologies like Kafka Kinesis SQS Flink or similar event streaming systems. You should understand patterns like change data capture (CDC) backpressure management delivery semantics and how to build resilient data pipelines that maintain consistency across distributed systems.
Proven ability to operate and optimize systems at scale - Experience designing for high throughput and low latency complex distributed workflows.
Multi-cloud or cloud-native infrastructure experience (AWS GCP or both) - Familiarity with deploying and operating services across cloud providers understanding cloud primitives (S3 object storage message queues) infrastructure-as-code and building platform capabilities that enable self-service for internal teams.

What you'll bring:

3-5 years of backend engineering experience with distributed systems and data-heavy platforms
Ownership and delivery - You handle complex tasks and small projects autonomously ensuring high quality and maintaining proactive communication throughout the process. You follow through on your commitments taking ownership of your work ensuring timely delivery and alignment with team goals.
Technical proficiency - You're skilled at writing high-quality code that is well-structured appropriately flexible reusable efficient and adaptable to changing requirements. You're proficient in the team's codebase and its associated languages tools libraries idioms and patterns. Your code reviews contribute and apply the high quality standard of the team.
Collaboration and influence - You embrace change navigate ambiguity and adapt quickly to it. You collaborate with your team and others to navigate complex and ambiguous situations. You actively contribute to decisions that impact the team and use data to measure the impact of features you deliver.

Compensation
At Atlassian we strive to design equitable explainable and competitive compensation programs. To support this goal the baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range but in turn we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidate's skills expertise or experience.
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: $147600 - $192700
Zone B: $133200 - $173900
Zone C: $123300 - $160975
This role may also be eligible for benefits bonuses commissions and equity.
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.
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 .

Skills Required

3-5 years of backend engineering experience with distributed systems and data-heavy platforms
Experience with JVM-based languages (Java)
Experience with Kotlin
Hands-on experience with event streaming systems (Kafka Kinesis SQS Flink)
Knowledge of streaming patterns (change data capture backpressure management delivery semantics) and building resilient data pipelines
Experience designing for high throughput and low latency distributed workflows
Multi-cloud or cloud-native infrastructure experience (AWS GCP) and familiarity with cloud primitives (S3 object storage message queues)
Experience with infrastructure-as-code and building platform capabilities for internal teams
Strong ownership delivery collaboration and ability to write high-quality maintainable code

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Leave & Time Off Breadth—PTO is presented as flexible or "unlimited" in practice alongside five paid volunteer days and charitable donation matching. Additional options like sabbaticals after five years and various leave programs broaden time‑away support.
Flexible Benefits—A remote‑first "Team Anywhere" model provides a monthly remote‑work allowance ergonomic support and limited periods to work outside the designated location. A configurable Flex Wallet and learning budget enable personalization of benefits and resources.

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HQ: San Francisco CA

11000 Employees

Year Founded: 2012

What We Do

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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